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Fortnight ago Sonja arrived in Manhattan, squired by her watchful father, whose fur business seldom receives his attention, and her morose, dour-faced mother. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered her screen tests, two other companies put in bids. When M-G-M demanded that she skate in her pictures, thus losing her amateur status, she hesitated. Then her sound business sense got the better of her. She signed for the tour. Signed with her was 19 year-old British Jack Dunn, who finished fifth at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last month, is now her most persistent companion...
...byways of the Yard, all should be peaceful in Cambridge, but not so. Fate has wrought up another plague. Since the first warm days in January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood of roller...
When Roger Knapp of Melrose, Mass. was 5, he learned to skate. At 8, he learned to swim. Later, to build up his arm and shoulder muscles, he climbed ropes in his back yard. In high school he played football, in the Y. M. C. A. went in for basketball, boxing, gymnastics. Last year he began conscientious efforts to improve his strength. As the result of this diligence, Professor Frederick Rand Rogers, Dean of Student Health & Physical Education at Boston University, last week was able to declare Roger Knapp, at 17, the strongest...
Thence to a little nap, but not being down long, the phone did ring: "Would you like to skate?" Whereupon I did put on some new flashy breeches and a cape which did make me look like a monk--at least so she did say--and so to Lake Waban. She, being very expert, did lead me a merry chase; and did top off her victory with a most silly remark that, my best form of exercise was "jumping at conclusions". Whereupon I did wash her pretty face in snow and so to tea at The Cabin...
Eight House hockey teams will skate upon Arena ice this afternoon in the first Intramural hockey tournament in House Plan history...