Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pratt-fall school of wit is upheld by numerous masters of the padded backside. Just when it seems impossible that skating can be any funnier, the Swiss team of Frick & Frack appears and remains in graceful motion while drooping backwards so far that their heads nearly sweep the rink...
Fred Martin started out as a hand-organ grinder in a San Francisco roller-skating rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...
...Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament of the R. S. R. O. A. (Roller Skating Rink Owners Association), the governing body of the sport...
...many bizarre endings in its 37 years, but last week's topped them all. Hotsy Totsy III, built for the 1937 race, was considered so worthless her owner had bought her for $1,000 only three weeks ago. Champion Allen, owner of a Long Island roller-skating rink, had never entered a race before, was so green he did not know what the checkered flag meant. But by steadily cruising around at 45 m.p.h.-in the last heat he was moving so slowly officials flagged him off the course-Greenhorn Allen, like the tortoise in Aesop's fable...
Playing on a borrowed Guarnerius at small concerts, Violinist Haitto has raised some $12,000 for the Finnish Relief Fund, has engagements through mid-May. He has learned some English, likes U. S. oranges, Mickey Rooney, skating in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center rink...