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Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
When Paramount Pictures Inc. decided to film The Lost Weekend, the horrendous novel about a dipsomaniac, it also uncorked a stream of scuttlebutt. Tongues wagged that the liquor industry was trying to stop Paramount, had tried to buy it off with $2,000,000, etc. Last week, as the movie won the plaudits of critics & public, Seagram-Distillers Corp. added...
There was a stream of callers at the little house near the Albert Hall. Old friends, like the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), made a special point of coming over. Outside the house the day "Winnie" left, and on the pier at Southampton, the crowds cheered him almost as they did during the dark blitz days. Somehow it was a very special goodbye...
...sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...
During the first day's operation, yesterday, only five apartment vacancies were received by the Harvard Housing Office at its headquarters in Straus Hall, to handle the steady stream of 100 home-seeking applicants...