Word: gretchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles S. Hatch-Gretchen Dambach (Radcliffe...
Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the title for the glory of Boston's skating swells. Miss Goos, a newcomer to senior ranks, was trying to accomplish something no figure skater had ever done: win the novice, junior and senior titles in three successive years...
...Behind Gretchen Merrill's victory were seven years of hard work. A perfectionist, emulating the career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...
Last month, while in California training under Tutor Vinson, Gretchen was asked to give a skating exhibition at an Army air base. "They gave me six encores," she recalls. "And I didn't have a sixth encore planned so I went to the microphone and said 'What will it be, boys?' They all shouted 'The Strip Polka.' Well, I asked for it. The music started and I made it up as I went along. The boys kept shouting at the right places. When they yelled 'Take it off! Take it off!' I lifted...
...Your father is now in London with the American Red Cross. Your mother and your sister, Gretchen, have received the snapshot of you and the General...