The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 198, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1979 Page: 9 of 16
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He was the best in North
America, and he competed
for the U.S. team in the
Winter Olympics of 1948, "52
and’56. But the best he could
ever do was an eighth place
finish at Cortina in 1966.
Scandinavians dominated
the sport.
He qualified again for the
American team at Squaw
Valley in 1960, but that was
just to show he could do it.
Ski jumping isn’t for 38-
year-old guys with shaky
reflexes, even a natural dare
devil like Devlin
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“Well," he continues, “I
saw the frosting on the cake
the day that Norwegian won
the Olympics. The cheering,
the crowd, the medals.
Birger Ruud became my
Babe Ruth "
Every day after school, he
used to run the two and a
half miles to the jumping
area, carrying the cumber-
some 252-centimeter skis on
his shoulders. Then he’d
have to tamp down the land-
ing area with those skis,
side-stepping tediously up
, the hill. And in the waning
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doing a stint in television
with CBS, which was going
to telecast the Squaw Valley
Games. Tex, looking for
expertise, called Devlin.
But this is home, where he
was born on the very site of
what is now his own modem
50-unit motel, and be re-
mains a “woodchuck" — a
local yokel, who’s bringing
the rest of the world to him.
Art Devlin was one of the
instrumental forces in bring-
ing the XHIth Winter Olym-
piad to Lake Placid next
February — he’s the vice
president of the Organising
Committee.
winter light, he was lucky if
he got in two jumps
By the time he was 17,
before his father even knew
he had ever jumped compet-
itively, Art had gone out to
St. Paul, Minn., and won the
national championships.
Ski jumping became his
obsession and his career.
But World War II interced-
ed. He became a bomber
pilot in the 15th Air Force,
flying over Europe. After
the war, he got 115 a week
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smack in the middle of the
ski jumping platform
erected just outside of town.
From the branches, he
watched Birger Ruud of
Norway soar to an Olympic
gold medal while thousands
below gaped at this new
spectacle, for Americans, of
ski jumping.
"I’d been playing around
on little bumps,"’ recalls Art.
He used to make a home-
made jump out of his
father’s cedar barrels and
got his rear end warmed for
tampering with them.
(“There was nothing like
that home brew during
Prohibition,” he smiles in
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
(NEA) - The north woods
spirit of this remote Adiron-
dacks village is on his ruddy
Irish face. Gray is beginning
to fleck his black hair —
after all, he is 57 years old
now
Art Devlin feels comfort-
able enough on the
boulevards of Paris or New
York or in the bierstube of
Kitzbuehl. And not unrecog-
nized either because he is a
television personality and
once was among the best,
most daring ski jumpers in
the world,
woods and climbed a tab
spruce tree practically
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 198, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1979, newspaper, April 5, 1979; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1429711/m1/9/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.