Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This extravagant reception at the International Skating Carnival last week was nothing new for 23-year-old Sonja Henie, Olympic Figure-skating Champion in 1928-32-36, World Champion in 1927-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36. What was new was that Norway's Henie was making her first appearance as a professional. For ten performances in the East and Midwest, she will receive $70,000, plus a percentage of the gate receipts...
...Sonja Henie (pronounced to rhyme with penny) says she decided to turn professional for two reasons: 1) as long as she had to practice twice a day, shun smoking and drinking, abide the stares of the curious, she might as well get something out of it besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson...
...action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader Karl Schafer, who made the Austrian swimming team in 1928, took the men's title. Blonde Sonja Henie of Oslo won the women's championship...
...Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They gave fourth place to a Swedish girl and first place as usual to Norway's superb Sonja Henie. Able Lawyer Steinhardt had already stepped aboard a steamer bound for Gotland, Sweden's "Island of Roses and Ruins," when Idrottsbladet' story was shown to him. He claimed to have been utterly misquoted: "In my speech I praised the punctuality, accuracy and knowledge of the rules possessed...
...Sonja Henie, of Norway, world's champion woman figure skater: a title contest before the Norwegian royal family in which the U. S. champion, graceful Maribel Vinson of Boston, fell during a spin, landed in fifth place; at Oslo...