Word: ketchum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perpetually dissatisfied -with snow conditions, terrain, the necessity for climbing up a hill after sliding down. To find the miseries of skiing at a minimum, skiers all over the world have heretofore had to go to the Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort...
...advertising superlative is to describe a dress, corset, necktie or suitcase as "very Saks Fifth Avenue." Astonished, therefore, were New Yorkers to read last week that Saks Fifth Avenue was about to branch to William Edgar Borah's potato paradise of Idaho. Name of the town: Ketchum...
...Ketchum is a tank town on a branch line of Union Pacific R. R. Its new importance springs from the fact that it lies a mile above sea level in snowy Sun Valley at the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains. For in Sun Valley, U. P.'s Chairman William Averell Harriman is developing a winter resort with heavy emphasis on skiing. He envisions it as a St. Moritz...
...Male skiers in U. P.'s promotion literature are usually pictured stripped to the waist and mopping their brows. Female skiers are generally reclining in ice block "Sunroom Igloos" getting a good "ice tan." An open-air, warm-water swimming pool for midwinter bathing is to be another Ketchum specialty. Other features: bobsledding, sleighriding, dog racing, skating rinks, "hot potato" rest huts...
...Arthur Adams, George F. Baker; 1900--Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Dwight F. Davis; 1901--James Lawrence, Robert E. Goodwin; 1902--Barrett Wendell, Jr., Robert J. Bulkley; 1903--Roger Ernst, Monte M. Lemarin; 1904--James Jackson, Arthur A. Ballantine; 1905--Ogden L. Mills, Walter S. Gifford; 1906--F. Abbot Goodhue, Philip Ketchum; 1907--Winthrop W. Aldrich, Robert L. Bacon; 1908--Rudolph Altrecchi, Samuel E. Morison; 1909--Elliott C. Cutler, William G. Wendell; 1910--Roger Amery, Clarence C. Little; 1911--Herbert Jacques, Charles E. Denlap; 1912--Hugh J. Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George C. Cutler; 1914--Junius S. Morgan...