Word: bobsledding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'...
Twenty-two-year-old Katharine is a nurse by profession but her hobby is perhaps the most dangerous sport in the world-driving a four-man bobsled. Last week she competed at Lake Placid against five of the most skillful U. S. drivers for the national senior bobsled championship.
A driver is not the whole works on a four-man bobsled team. There is a brakeman (to bob, check skids and bring the sled to a stop at the run's end) and two men sandwiched between brakeman and driver (for ballast as well as bobbing).
But a driver must use split-second judgment, must take icy hairpin curves with hairline precision at 70 m.p.h., must keep his 500-lb. sled in the centre of the straightaways. Bobsled drivers are usually big, bold iron men.