Word: torger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey carpenter, Art Tokle belongs to one of skiing's most remarkable families. His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets...