by Andy Bull
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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