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James M. Daleo '49--Maribel Asher (Pine Manor...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
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...
...Married. Maribel Yerxa Vinson, 26, nine times U. S. amateur figure skating champion, who last year turned professional; and her exhibition partner, professional Skater Guy Rochon Owen, 26; in Winchester, Mass...
...blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...