Word: adirondacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismay of Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 72, who had been with the Digest all his life. Last week Editor Draper announced his resignation. Cause: "Differences of opinion on matters of policy." He took pride in having "made it a paper of original rather than quotative matter." Off to his Adirondack summer home to start his memoirs, he jocularly remarked that he "always wanted to be in journalism 30 years so he could write a book called Thirty Years in Journalism...
...region in the southern Adirondack is one of the most famous geological study grounds in the country. Here the summer student may study easily early Paleozoic sediments overlapping the Precambrian complex as he "roughs it" according to the best geological tradition, living in a tent and sleeping in a folding...
...faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna Fox. On its last run the Fox sled, with "knee action'' runners made of an aluminum alloy, jumped the track just below Whiteface, landed safely on the roadway beside...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...
...sport of the type which insurance companies view with alarm. Last month a Swiss bobber, Oscar Geier, was notified that his insurance would be cancelled unless he gave up the sport. To prevent novices from breaking their heads, Lake Placid bob-sled enthusiasts last summer formed the Adirondack Bob Sled Club which teaches novices how to handle the sleds, issues licenses for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, maintains a staff of drivers to take passengers over the course for $1 a ride...