Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept out of Hearstpaper affairs, except as a $1-a-year adviser (TIME, Nov. 5). The first sign of her advice: when her friend Sonja Henie opened her ice show on the West Coast, the San Francisco Examiner ran feature stories for four straight days, the Call-Bulletin headlined a rave review: SONJA'S ICE SHOW WINS HEART...
...Button, an automatic qualifier, was there for an exhibition. But the real interest centered on the purposeful tussle among a group of teen-age girls, each intent on earning one of the three team placings, and hopeful of following in the Olympic skating steps of such glamour girls as Sonja Henie and Barbara Ann Scott.* After the required "school" figures, which count 60% toward the final standings, three of the girls stood head & shoulders above the rest of the field...
Sonya Klopfer, 17, of Long Island City, N.Y., a solid little brunette who is fond of malteds and doughnuts, got her first name, despite the difference in spelling, out of her mother's unbounded admiration for Sonja Henie. Sonya specializes in free-style skating-"The finest free skater of her age in the world today," said the conservative British Skating World, after her third-place performance in the 1951 World Championship. Sonya is the current North American and U.S. titleholder...
...Currently Sonja's successor (after 15 years) in the Hollywood Ice Revue (TIME...
...want to hitch ourselves to a political thing, then we don't have any choice." To add to the nerve-racking situation, the choir was living in a dingy hotel only just inside the U.S. sector boundary, and momentarily expecting a Communist attempt to kidnap them. Frau Ursula-Sonja Nehl thought that a packet of sandwiches she found in her room had been poisoned...