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...practice sessions at the Boston Skating Club and the Boston Arena are now primarily in preparation for the World Championship competition next Feb. 26 to March 2. In mile-high altitudes at Colorado springs, Colo., Tenley will attempt to capture the women's world figure skating crown from Carol Heiss of New York...
...from acting like enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was "started by a newspaperwoman." But when they skated onto the rink, all became cold precision...
With a skill that seemed equal to the casual eye, Carol Heiss performed the same graceful maneuvers and the judges went through it all again. Using computations too complicated for the casual spectator, they parceled out points. Albright got 1,001; Heiss got 9.4 fewer...
Barring an unexpected turnabout in the next day's free figure trials, this meant that Tenley Albright had beaten Carol Heiss again. No one else was close. "Oh, the judges like Tenley." whispered Mrs. Heiss to a companion. "They always do." Then she searched out Tenley Albright's mother, Elin, and congratulated her. "We've just lost the championship," Mrs. Heiss told newsmen. "I have already congratulated Tenley's mother, and I asked her to put it on record that I congratulated her this year one day ahead of time...
Said Mrs. Heiss: "I'm delighted about everything. What would you want me to say? There would never be any champions if people were willing to settle for second, third or fourth...