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...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...
...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...
Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains, nerve-control and concentration." Says Frack, the fractious one: "What we like most outside of skating is to go to a vaudeville show so we can laugh once in a while...
...wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler was the humor of whimsical Doris Lee, who in her Winter in the Catskills successfully unrolled a cosmic panorama of mountain as a backdrop for a skater's spill...