Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME WOMAN OF YEAR IDENTIFIED YESTERDAY . . . MRS. CORA D. O'CONNOR, ABOUT 42 . . . CLERK Y.W.C.A., MOTHER OF THREE, INCLUDING LOIS ANN, A CHAMPIONSHIP SPEED SKATER...
Over the ice and through the superheated plot, the picture's heaviest load is lugged by a svelte, sultry, English-born skater who bills herself professionally as Belita (real name: Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life...
...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...
Divorced. By Sonja Henie Topping, 35, tentime world-champion figure skater*: Daniel Reid Topping, 35, playboyish part-owner of baseball's New York Yankees, owner of professional football's New York Football Yankees; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
Tiny, 31-year-old ice-blue-eyed Viennese Skater Trenkler learned to skate as a child on frozen snow. He learned to skate fast by hanging on to cars like other small boys all over the world and being chased by policemen. As a young man he had won a number of competitions when, one day in Budapest, he noticed that a guy who couldn't skate for beans, but was highly accomplished at pratfalls, kept the crowd in an uproar. Quickly deciding that slapstick paid off better than mere skill, Trenkler went out and bought a pair...