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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This New Hampshire town offers very good open slope skiing and practice slopes with a ski tow. Norwood Cox, Coop ski expert, is here to give instruction. Close to Cambridge, it can be reached either by auto or train...
...Bandleader Eddy Duchin. whose theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief of guides, Charles Proctor). Where the 3,050-ft. towline ends, skiers will not even have to remove their skis before relapsing into "chairlifts" which will carry them...
...good skiing week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main slides fair in spots. Some slopes still skiable...
...Blake and Don Reynolds have installed a second tow at Brookline, N. H. The main hill has been widened and the trees at the top of the run, as well as the rock piles below, have been removed. There is a new run, called the Depot trail. The lunch room has been renovated; the town of Brookline is going to clear a much larger parking area this season, and between Jan. 9 and Feb. 22 Norwood Cox, Harvard Coop ski pro, will have charge of the classes and individual instruction every Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday...
Every indication points to an administration sortie into Congress with the Canal in tow. And not far behind lurks the dismal shade of its twin blunder, the Passamaquoddy project. President Roosevelt, this time, undoubtedly has the power and prestige to browbeat a subservient Congress into a receptive mood. To do so, however, would be an appalling abuse of trust and confidence...