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...Sundays, the Holmenkollen is the World Series, and stars such as Hoel and Bjornstad are Norway's DiMaggios and Musials. Even the arrival of King Haakon last week produced no such resounding heias as did a formful jump. Norwegians get no more chance to practice on the famous slope than anybody else. Tradition and Norwegian sportsmanship keep the hill closed except at championship time, so that local boys will get no undue advantage. This year's event carried more weight than usual. It was the last chance jumpers will get at Holmenkollen before next winter's Olympic...
...sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
...River, Communist anti-tank guns firing from a hill briefly stalled the advance. A company of G.I.s, led by Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., charged the crest with fixed bayonets, spitted 47 Chinese, shot down 50 more as they ran down the north slope. The advance continued...
...sports are supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope or slick pond than the front stoop of Zeta...
...contribution that few Americans know about-whether from lack of interest or pure defensive caution. Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...