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...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...
...Gretchen shone in "school figures" (rigidly prescribed maneuvers) which call for the most technical skill, but are not much fun to watch. "Free skating," which accounts for 40% in scoring, is more to the public taste: it allows the shimmering pirouettes made famous by Sonja Henie. In this, Philadelphia's pretty Eileen Seigh, 17, outdid Gretchen. But Gretchen had made her points where they counted most...
Divorced. Woolworth Donahue, 33, idle-rich grandson and heir of Frank Winfield Woolworth (F. W. Woolworth & Co.); by Gretchen Wilson Donahue, 32, ex-wife of John Randolph Hearst; after six years of marriage, three of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...
Charles S. Hatch-Gretchen Dambach (Radcliffe...
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...