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...GRETCHEN MERRILL...
...Tailed Champion. By the seventh day, the red-faced U.S. was still hoping for its first Olympic victory. The girl who won it was slim, brown-haired Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other U.S. woman) a chance against Europe's talented stars. She was the first to ski down the tricky special slalom run, which had thawed and frozen again. For ten minutes she stood nervously at the top of the run, her eyes closed most of the time, while officials tested...
...refusing to slow up for icy spots. She flew down the slope, zigzagging between the red and yellow flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
...free-skating event, a judge gave her a mark of six-a rare, perfect score. Barbara Ann won the European figure-skating crown easily over Boston's Gretchen Merrill. Canadians were not surprised: Barbara Ann had already been voted Canada's outstanding athlete, the first time a girl was ever so honored...
Saul L. Sherman '47--Gretchen Dornback (Radcliffe...