Word: vail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, roofless dock where islanders assemble for a beer or two after races. Three or four fairly primitive tennis courts have been rolled out in the woods on a couple of larger islands. One established resident is Lucien Wulsin, president of Baldwin Pianos, another is Dr. Derrick Vail, famed eye surgeon. Adlai Stevenson is a frequent visitor. Desbarats is, as a Chicago women's editor sighed, "very, very chic...
This winter, instead of competing in Europe, the Americans stayed home to acclimate themselves to the Rockies' 11,000-ft. altitude, and practice on Vail's dry, powdery snow - quite unlike the hard-packed Alpine surfaces...
Obviously, there is no home-court advantage in skiing. At last week's American International ski meet at Vail, Colo., competing on a mountain they had never seen before, the Austrians and French proved once again that they are more than a match for the best skiers the U.S. can produce...
...Kandinsky and Jean Cocteau, while Peggy made good her resolve "to buy a painting a day." Dynamite Chronicle. Their advice proved good. When Peggy fled from Vichy France in 1941 for New York, she went encumbered with her future husband, Surrealist Max Ernst, her ex-husband, Laurence Vail, and art that had cost her only $40,000. The collection that adorns her Venice palazzo now is insured for $5,250,000. She had snatched up incendiary works from nearly all the key art movements since 1910-at a song. Now, for the first time in 14 years, the public outside...
Tiger captain Jed Graef has raced the 200-yard freestyle in 1:53.5, fast enough to give Dave Abramson, whose best at the distance is 1:51.1 some trouble tomorrow. The Crimson junior should have no such problems in the 500, where the Tigers' Dave Vail needs about 5:35 to negotiate the distance...