Word: skater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Completely contrasted with Brown which could not compose any offensive playmaking all night, every Crimson skater worked in a team effort and dominated the play throughout the game. In all, the Crimson took 66 shots at Batchelder...
Shapely Tenley Albright, 21, once a polio victim, now Olympic figure-skating champion (first U.S. woman to win that laurel), announced her withdrawal from rink competition. After only three years as a brilliant premed student at Radcliffe college, Skater Albright has been accepted by Harvard Medical School, will enter it this autumn, aims to go into some branch of children's medicine...
...their attempt to find a new star. They have given the male lead (the role played previously by Russell Nype--that of assistant to the lady ambassador) to Dick Button '52, who up to now has been far less distinguished as an actor than as a world champion figure skater. The original Lindsay & Crouse script for Call Me Madam said nothing whatever about ice skating, but this difficulty has not fazed producers G. Sheldon Balloch and Clifford N. Lenox in the least. They have simply interpolated a couple of skating scenes and proceeded to re-build the play around...
Married. Sonja Henie, 43, Norwegian-born ice skater and sometime cinemactress (Sun Valley Serenade); and Niels Onstad, 46, wealthy Norwegian shipping executive; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Tenley and Miss Heiss rate even in the free skating; though Miss Heiss probably is the flashier and more daring skater, Tenley is conceded greater form and finesse...