Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything but the G.I.s...
...more than just a bootmaker, Peter Limmer is a skiing institution, and his shop a hangout for the optimistic amateurs who look for snow in October, and the inscrutable professionals, who may do so but don't show...
Peter himself doesn't ski much now because "If I fell down, I'd have to wait till the snow melted to get up." Mama stills skis a bit. Francis and Peter are the athletes in the family. Francis spent several of his war years in the Camp Hale ski troops where Torger Tokle was his platoon sergeant. Peter Jr., however, chose the Air Corps where he was a crew chief on a B-29. Both the boys look forward to a break in the business rush when they can dash up to Tuckerman's or Cannon Mountain with...
Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, when snow covers the sleeping gridiron, often interviews athletically minded men and tries to convince them of the value of a Harvard education. This writer offers a humble suggestion to Mr. Lamar, to wit: That the grass grows green in the Boston home pasture, and that diligent search in season may he worth a lot of hoeing on frost stiffened ground...
Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...