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...When Sonja Henie stepped off the plane after a Brussels-to-Paris flight, she was set upon by 18 French customs officials. "They marched me," Skater Henie reported, "right into a shed . . . where a lady customs agent with a small mustache told me to undress . . . everything, including my stockings and slippers. . . . They strewed the contents of my eight suitcases all over the place." Those two undeclared $100 bills that customs men found in her purse and confiscated? Sonja twittered: "It was just mad money I have carried for years in case of emergency, and I had forgotten all about...
...Mary's smart Coach Jimmy Phelan explained it: "He's a cross between Pavlova and Sonja Henie . . . and he has that Hawaiian rhythm." (Wedemeyer is half German, half Hawaiian.) In the fourth quarter, when a Fordham quick kick sailed over his head, Wedemeyer chased it back to his 30-yard line, then, as tacklers converged on him, kicked the ball right back. It rolled dead on Fordham's five. So flustered was Fordham that its quarterback called for a forward pass on the next play, pitched it smack into the arms of a St. Mary...
...Ideal Couple List with a thud. After a hot argument, Frankie walked out with a first-degree burn on. Clucked Sinatra's pressagent: "It was a case of Hollywood career plus a family tiff. I hope they will make up. . . ." But that night, Frankie went to Sonja Henie's party, danced with Lana Turner. Burbled Lolly Parsons: "[Lana has] known Frank for a long time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken up a home.' " Then, said Louella, Lana...
...Sonja Henie's success in the U.S. failed to cut any ice with the Norwegian press; a writer for Oslo's Verdens Gang tartly summed up her aid to her native land during the German occupation: "On the whole, she didn't do anything...
Gretchen shone in "school figures" (rigidly prescribed maneuvers) which call for the most technical skill, but are not much fun to watch. "Free skating," which accounts for 40% in scoring, is more to the public taste: it allows the shimmering pirouettes made famous by Sonja Henie. In this, Philadelphia's pretty Eileen Seigh, 17, outdid Gretchen. But Gretchen had made her points where they counted most...