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...Stuart learned his art in London, and before returning to the U.S. to paint his famed portraits of Washington* he did brilliant work there. Last week one of his best British portraits, never before seen in the U.S., went on exhibition in Washington's National Gallery. Entitled The Skater, it portrayed an elegant gentleman named William Grant taking a whirl on the ice in St. James's. Park. The picture showed that Stuart quickly learned the knack of making his subjects look noble and lifelike at the same time...
Stuart neglected to sign The Skater, and Englishmen came to assume that one of their own great 18th Century portraitists must have painted it. In 1878 the picture was shown at London's Royal Academy, and a contemporary critic wrote: "A more graceful and manly figure was surely never painted by an English artist, and if Gainsborough were that artist this is unquestionably his masterpiece...
Dick Button proved last night in Washington that he was still the country's top figure skater when he won the Men's Figure Skating Championship for the fifth straight year...
Next on the Championship agenda is the improvised "freo" skating event in which Button is considered to be without parallel. His tour de force, unduplicated by any skater in recent years, is a jump called the "double-double-axie." In this text, Button comes into the jump skating backwards, leaps into the air, and executes a two-and-a-half body spin. The complete maneuver covers about 30 feet...
...Afterward, Skater Kiraly made more news of his own. As many another Iron Curtain athlete has done since World War II, Bachelor Kiraly made up his mind to choose freedom, announced that he had British permission to stay in England...