Switzerland Revisited
By Ted Heck Connie and I spent two weeks in Switzerland this spring, where I spent a couple of days on the slopes of Meiringen and a week in the gigantic Jungfrau Region. It was a trip I organized myself, showing that I sometimes fail to practice what I preach. In touting merits of membership […]
The White Jump Suit
By Ted Heck Here glides the bride, all dressed in white. Liz Langsfeld is being escorted down the slope by her father Mickey. Smiling midway on the slope is her soon-to-be-husband Ben Bachrach. He’s on skis, too. So are some of the 24 other family members in the small wedding party atop Elk Mountain in […]
What Would Avery Brundage Say?
By Ted Heck The Olympics in China are about to distract me from nightly fixes of Law and Order and print media is awash with more information about athletes than I can absorb. NBA basketball star LeBron James, destined to become a legend, is on the cover of TIME magazine, which highlights 100 American sport […]
Skiing Along the Nile
By Ted Heck Reprinted from Harrisburg Patriot News Tutankhamun did not ski and probably never saw snow, according to Achmed, our guide during a recent trip to Egypt. Teenage King Tut might have tried sandboarding, if the sport had been invented back in 1331 B.C. and if his advisors had allowed him to. Egyptians do […]
Cézanne’s Mountain Revisited
By Ted Heck It was a lot more comfortable seeing paintings of Mont St. Victoire this time than when I first saw the real thing 64 years ago. This time it was in a special exhibition of Paul Cézanne’s work and his influence on later painters, a show that attracts crowds to Philadelphia’s Museum of […]
Fighting World War II with Family
Southern California 25, Tennessee 0. This summer I finally learned the score of the 1945 Rose Bowl. My nephew Doug plugged in his laptop and Googled the result as we sat in a restaurant recently in the village of Philippsbourg in Alsace Lorraine. We were in France during a family visit to my old battlegrounds. […]
San Diego…Sea and See Worthy
By Ted Heck It took me only 88 years and $3,000 to get from Philadelphia to San Diego. Long ago I wanted to visit the seaport in Southern California, after watching movies of World War II sailors and soldiers moving in and out of the harbor, kissing wives and girlfriends on the dock. Years later […]
Homily
Download the Homily *Ted Heck, a decorated combat veteran of World War II, was chosen to deliver this homily during the memorial service at a reunion of the 70th Infantry Division.. It was reproduced later in the division’s Trailblazer Magazine.
Phone Tapping in Germany
Tea Party members or Obama fans are focused on the hubbub surrounding the National Security Agency’s world-wide phone tapping. When I first learned how disturbed German Chancellor Angela Merkel was by NSA’s nosiness, my mind flew back 61 years to a sports incident in which talk about eavesdropping almost cost me my job. It involved […]
Longtime Snow Journalist Ted Heck Receives Prestigious Award by Karen Lorentz
By Karen Lorentz Ted Heck has easily lived nine lives. One of them is as ski writer for 60-plus years, another as a skier of 68 years. All this in addition to a stint in the army, a career in advertising, sales, and marketing with executive positions of such companies as Kraft and Hunt Wesson […]
