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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...
...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...
...Sonja Henie, 36, highly professional ice-skating star, and Winthrop Gardiner, 36, socialite sportsman, were married in Manhattan, at a small ceremony (there was a little trouble arranging for the church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last-minute fussing with her costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings...
Skating Cinemactress Sonja Henie and Socialite-Aviator Winthrop Gardiner Jr. took off in his brand-new plane for a Long Island weekend, leaving a slipstream of elopement rumors. Headlined New York's Daily News: SONJA...
...Sonja Henie, robbed of $28,000 worth of furs last January when thieves broke into her Manhattan hotel room, was robbed of $35,000 worth of furs and clothes by thieves who broke into a truck carrying her luggage...