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Years ago a rich Denverite, George Ernest Cranmer, conceived the idea of making a theater of the red rocks. White-haired, eagle-eyed little Mr. Cranmer, retired broker, skier, skater, mountain-climber, became Denver's Manager of Improvements and Parks. Four years ago CCC, the National Park Service and the city began the $750,000 job of building the theater...
After announcing he might seek draft deferment because his football team needed him (TIME, Jan. 20), Sportsman-Socialite Dan Topping, angel of the Brooklyn Dodgers and husband of Skater Sonja Henie, got off because he had stomach ulcers...
Every good figure skater can do a Jackson Haines spin, the showy sit-spin that has helped make ice shows a popular U. S. entertainment. But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship...
...figure skaters have long wanted to celebrate Jackson Haines's birthday. But nobody - not even the late Irving Brokaw, whose Art of Skating is the figure skater's bible - had ever known the date. A few weeks before the national championships his birth month was unearthed. It turned out to be November 1840. Skaters were embarrassed to have just missed a chance to celebrate his centenary in the proper month...
Producer Roy Shipstad, who advertises himself as "the greatest male skater in the world today," probably is. He is to the ice what Fred Astaire is to the boards. And as the last couple in a group waltz (spectators will do well to spot them from the beginning of the number), young Ruby & Bobby Maxson from Duluth do perhaps the most beautifully abandoned pair-skating the ice has ever held...