Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...because of Buttons proximity, uses more direct quotes than in any other chapter. Like the other articles, this one is well-documented and factually correct. Button was angered at an early ago by the prediction of an impatient teacher, who said he could never learn to be a figure skater. His determination to "show" this teacher ultimately led to his international success...
...Skater Bobby Blake was no musician. But when Blake tootled a couple of notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...
Over the years we have learned a good deal about our Canadian readers. They include all of Canada's 20 cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Skater Barbara Ann Scott, and businessmen like Edward P. Taylor, president of Argus Corp., etc. A majority of them are businessmen, of whom 75% are executives. More than 75% of all our readers in Canada live in cities...
Dick Button, Olympic and world men's champion figure skater, is favored to retain his North American title when he takes the ice at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, today for the North American championship...