Word: slaloms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week stocking up on skiing equipment. Meanwhile impatient skiers who wanted to study an example of extraordinary skill in downhill running had only to look at U. S. stock markets. At the start of last week stock prices had already been whistling for eight weeks in a steep slalom around such) formidable obstacles as reports of record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages...
Brilliantly photographed by Lee Tover, shrewdly released to coincide with the first heat waves of 1937, the $1,000.000 result successfully combines the current vogue for mildly lunatic comedy with the pure visual satisfaction of importations like Du World's The Bine Light, H. R. Sokal's Slalom. Best small part: George Davis as a Swiss sleigh driver who, with the same impenetrable calm, drives Kay to the hotel when she arrives, rescues her when she plunges into a snowbank on skis, drives her to the station when she leaves...
Facing a Dartmouth team which included three members of the 1936 Olympic Ski Team, the University skiers handed the Green its first major defeat of two years last Sunday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race in Tuckerman's Ravine at Mt. Washington. The sum of the times of the first 15 men on each team gave the Crimson a slim margin of 6.7 seconds, 739.2 seconds to Dartmouth's 745.9. First place was taken by Dick Dorrance of Dartmouth, slalom champion of the United States, in the time of 40.1 seconds...
...Wednesday meeting Dave Emerson '38 was elected captain, and MacLaurin '38 manager of next year's ski team. This week end the team journeys to Tuckerman's Ravine for the Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race. Thirty-five runners from each college will compete...
Inaugurating competition in skiing among the "Big Three", the University ski team will meet Princeton and Yale in downhill and slalom in Tuckerman's Ravine on April '1. Next Sunday the "A" team will race in the annual "Inferno" down Mt. Washington, the most difficult downhill race held in the east...