Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barbara Ann's daddy, with his broken body (the army rated him 75% invalid) wanted his only daughter to do everything he couldn't, and to do it well. He called her "Tinker"-a nickname nobody else ever used-and she thought her daddy was something pretty special. When Clyde Scott hobbled around the nine-hole cow-pasture golf course at Kingsmere in the summers, "Tinker" caddied...
...This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals. But it is Barbara Ann herself who seems to have most to say about what she is going to do -and she is gradually being converted to Coach Galbraith's accent...
...money than on knowing people and being of respectable family. The Scotts had little money, but they gave their daughter everything they could afford. She went to the Ottawa Normal Model School, got plenty of dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white mice, and played the piano. The boy who used to be a neighbor still proudly displays a scar over his left...
...already devoted to ice skating by the time she was nine, and gave up going to school. For 2½ hours each morning she was tutored by Miss Seeley, who later also tutored the grandchildren of Princess Alice and the Governor General. As a French student, Barbara Ann was embarrassed by "masculine" and "feminine" for genders, and substituted "boy" and "girl...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...