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...first tournament at Portillo. They took the slopes the French way-keeping skis always close together, swinging weight to turn. Such teachings are heresy in the U.S., where Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will...
Barnstorming Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen whirled through Belgium in one day. France took only five. But this week as he headed for Athens, on the third leg of his two-month, 18-country tour, he was scooping up information like a snowplow...
Despite his harshness, Jeffers won and held a reputation for scrupulous fairness, and for never asking anyone to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. Once, when he was general superintendent, he ran a rotary snowplow for 120 hours, opened the main line for traffic. The railroad brotherhoods, with whom U.P.'s relations are so cordial that there has been no labor trouble since 1903, regard Jeffers as a hard, fair bargainer...
Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn...
Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...