Speed Kings (45 page)

Rubien, Fred,
210

Runyon, Damon,
75
,
121
,
164
,
179
–80

Russia,
65
,
233
,
236

Ruth, Babe,
74

Ryan, Ted,
206
,
207
,
218

Sangro, Duke of,
59

Saranac Lake Red Devils,
144
,
150
,
152
,
156
,
157
,
181
,
183
,
187
–90,
195

Sargent, John Singer,
133

Schatz, John,
179

Schroder, Werner,
165

Scorsese, Martin,
9

Seabury, Samuel,
177

Second World War,
25
,
214
,
225
–40,
243
–60,
269
,
272
,
273

Selfridge, Harry Gordon,
26

Seth-Smith, Michael,
215

Shea, Jack,
176

Sherrill, General Charles Hitchcock,
116
,
212

Sickle, J. Harrington “Pud,”
40
,
41

Silver, June Grey,
63
–65

Sinclair, Archibald,
266
–67

Smith, Red,
269

Smith, Wilson,
16

Sørsdal, Sverre,
134

Spears, Edward,
245

Spooner, William,
136

St. Leger Trophy,
55

St. Moritz,
13
,
28
,
49
,
51
–60,
80
,
115
,
207
,
209
–11,
218
–20

Badrutt family hotels in,
15
–18

Billy's English friends from,
219
,
230
–32,
239
,
245
,
266

Bobsled Club (SMBC) in,
18
–27,
28
,
53
,
55
–57,
59
,
83
,
220

bobsled runs in,
19
,
272
(
see also
Cresta Run)

Fiske family friends from,
201
,
203

1931 World Championship in,
154
,
165
,
191

Winter Olympics in,
14
,
28
,
50
,
57
–58,
65
,
70
–73,
79
,
81
–94,
99
,
146
,
149
,
150
–53,
165
,
174
,
176
,
178

Stevens, Curtis,
150
,
156
,
171
,
181
–83

Stevens, Hubert,
150
,
155
,
165
,
168
,
171
,
181
–83,
208
,
209

Stevens, Paul,
150
,
156
,
181
,
187
–88

Stevens, Raymond,
150
,
156

Sullivan, Sport,
34

Summer Olympics,
57
,
98
,
109
,
133
–35,
137
–39,
143
,
164
,
270

Sweden,
56

Winter Olympics teams of,
89
,
174

Sweeny, Bobby and Charles,
6
,
230

Swift, Otis Peabody,
114

Switzerland,
13
,
16
,
17
,
20
,
22
,
57
,
79
,
100
,
135
,
221
,
272

Winter Olympics teams of,
89
–90,
157
,
160
,
163
,
164
,
170
,
174
,
186
,
220

See also
St. Moritz

Swope, Herbert,
71

Tammany Hall,
30
,
164
,
177

Tammen, Harry,
127

Taylor, Bill,
217
–18,
230
,
268

Taylor, Megan,
174

Thalberg, Irving,
217

Thomas, Olive,
75
–76

Thomas, Ralph Hill,
25

Thompson, Denman,
17

Thompson, Mace,
135

Thyssen, Fritz,
213
–14

Tierson, Tommy,
125

Tobin, Abe,
120
–22,
125
,
133

Torrey, H.A.P.,
103

Tracy, Spencer,
205

Tucker, Nion,
61
,
82
,
85
,
86
,
92

Tully, Jim,
130
–31

Tunney, Gene,
59
,
131
,
142
–43,
270

Tyler, Frank,
208

Unger, Donald,
186

United States,
10
,
53
,
146

in Second World War,
236
–37,
239
,
269

Winter Olympics teams of,
59
–61,
81
–94,
116
,
150
–57,
163
,
164
,
166
,
171
,
173
–79,
183
–85,
187
–92,
219
,
220

United States Olympic Committee,
58
–59,
65
,
72
,
173
,
208
–14,
219

and bid for Lake Placid as 1932 Winter Olympics site,
99
,
108
–9,
115

selection of 1932 bobsled team by,
115
–16,
151
–53,
157

Ury, Ralph J.,
156

Valentino, Rudolph,
38
–39

Vallee, Rudy,
205

Vanderbilt, Virginia,
29
–31

Vincent, Arthur “Bunker,”
61

Vlora, Princess,
25
–27,
34
,
83

Walker, Jimmy,
176
–79,
191

Wallechinsky, David,
66
,
72

Ward, Hamilton,
111

Ward, Patsy,
203
,
204
,
219
,
221

Warwick, Charles Greville, Earl of,
216
–18,
233

Warwick, Rose Greville, Countess of,
see
Fiske, Rose Bingham

Waugh, Evelyn,
136

Webb, Spike,
131
,
132
,
134

Weber, Lois,
203
,
204

Webster, Tom,
52

West, Kid,
123

Whelan, Charles and Frank,
78

Whitehead, T. North,
239

Wicks, Karl,
132

Wignall, Trevor,
138

Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany,
22
,
59

Willard, Jess,
126
,
129

Willey, Courtney,
257
–59,
273

Wilson, Woodrow,
132

Winant, John,
266

Winter Olympics,
53
,
56
–57,
63
,
73
,
94
,
166
,
270

1928 (St. Moritz),
59
–60,
70
,
81
–94,
99

1932,
see
Lake Placid, 1932 Winter Olympics in

1936 (Garmisch-Partenkirchen),
208
–12

1980 (Lake Placid),
63
,
66
,
99
,
272

2010 (Vancouver),
53
,
166

Wodehouse, P. G.,
67
–68

Wolfe, Tom,
95

Wong, Ronald,
242

World War I,
10
–11,
22
–23,
129
,
154
,
164
,
170
,
191
,
214
,
219
,
231

World War II,
see
Second World War

Yale University,
130
–33,
135
–37,
143
,
185

Zahn, Werner,
152
–54,
164
–68,
171
,
174
,
180
–81,
183
,
189
–91,
220
,
272

Zanuck, Darryl F.,
205

Zardini, Sergio,
272

Zentzytzki, Stanislaus,
110
,
112
,
113
,
116
,
150
–52

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
36
,
37
,
68
–69,
71
,
74

Ziegfeld, Patricia,
69

Ziegfeld Follies,
37
–39,
68
,
71
,
75
,
205

Zimbalist, Efrem,
65

Zukor, Adolph,
37
,
39

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