On Snow

At Muerren, Switzerland, where Europe's best skiers were racing for the Arlberg-Kandahar trophy, Germany's Rudi Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom--through a zigzag, flag-marked course--in which Allais had finished third.

Cranz won the second heat also but Allais, with Cranz's paraffin on his skis, contrived to finish second, clipping four seconds off his previous time. This, added to his second place in the downhill race the day before, gave Allais, 26-year-old baker's boy, a first in the combined event to add to the International Ski Federation's World Championship he won last month at Chamonix. To generous Rudi Cranz. who finished eighth in the downhill race, fourth in. the combined event, went the consolation of watching his older sister Christl, world's champion skier, win the A-K prize for women more decisively than Allais had won the men's.

At Ketchum, Idaho, the Union Pacific Railroad's wintersports rival to St. Moritz, the U. S. Amateur Skiing Championships, originally scheduled for Mt. Washington, N. H., were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second to his protege in the downhill race.

At Fairbanks, Alaska, hockey, snowshoeing, skiing, curling, fireworks and a beauty contest were part of an international goodwill and progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats of 1 hr. 12 min. 39 sec.

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