Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...
...Eastern socialites. Last week, when the 23rd national tournament was held at Cleveland's swank Skating Club, officials were a little embarrassed at the large turnout. From North & South, from East & West they came, in contestants, largest entry list in the history of the event. To examine each skater's hairline tracings in twelve finicky figures was a laborious task for the tournament's five judges...
...chance against her. Last year and the year before, she edged out peppy Audrey Peppe, whose brilliant free skating stopped the show. This year, with Miss Peppe out of competition (she is skating in a professional ice show), Queen Joan found her throne threatened by another equally brilliant free skater, a newcomer to U. S. competition: 17-year-old Heddy Stenuf. A Viennese who finished second to England's Megan Taylor in the world's championship at Prague last year, vivacious little Heddy captivated the spectators last week with her spins and jumps. But the judges, who like...
...considered Hodder's most successful body-checker, and an effective blueline operative. Alternative defenseman Forbes Perkins is the Crimson's third highest scorer, with three tallies to his credit. A former first line wing, he was switched back to the defense to make room for a speedier skater...
...Across Lake Laatokka the world's champion speed skater, 28-year-old Birger Vasenius, led a skating patrol to relieve Finnish troops on an island, was killed by a Russian sharpshooter...