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...champion is blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...
...drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
...Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real...
...Sullivan's solo put the Green ahead at 11:20. But Joe Patrick put Harvard back in the game by slamming Ned Cutter's pass at 13:35. Lewis overtime tally proved enough despite the Crimson's frantic rushes and the fact that Johnson was removed for a sixth skater before the game ended...
Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...