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...seemed like the winter Olympics all over again. For the world championships, figure skaters had moved to the big ice stadium built by Adolf Hitler at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Colorado's Hayes Jenkins repeated his Cortina victory; when the women finished their school figures. Defending Champion Tenley Albright seemed to have a slight lead over Long Island's Carol Heiss, just as she had had in the Olympics. The "Skating Mothers" were still on hand, still complaining about accommodations, still intent on a family triumph...
Miss Heiss took a slight edge over Tenley in the compulsory figures division and added a decisive margin in the free skating to win the competition held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
Tenley Albright '57 barely held the lead over her Olympic rival, Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N.Y., after the completion of four school figures in the world's woman's figure skating championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
Before departing for the satellite orbit, Tenley will participate in the German competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. After her trip to Czechoslovakia and Poland, she plans to give exhibitions in Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, and London before starting home...
Tenley Albright, Radcliffe '57, the world figure skating champion, plans definitely to compete in the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo, next December. Soon afterward she will go to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to defend, in the World Championships, the title she won last February...