Word: sonja
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Figures. Figure-skaters should know the 72 recognized figures. Last week at Madison Square Garden the finalists in the world's figure skating championship were allowed five minutes on the ice to show their ability. Sonja Henie had come from Norway and had been practicing in Manhattan for five weeks in preparation for her five minutes (TIME, Jan. 20). As she ran through the gate and started diagonally across the ice in the sprint that gave her speed it was clear that she was nervous. Once she slipped, brushed the ice with her fingertips, caught her balance, smiled and flushed...
...following Interview with Sonja Henle was procured for the Crimson by E. T. Floathe '32. It is particularly interesting to note that a great deal of the conversation was carried on in Norwegian...
...interview last night at the Lenox Hotel, Sonja Henie, 17-year-old girl skater from Oslo, Norway, who has won the world's singles title for women four successive times, and who is to appear at the Arena tonight, said she began to practice skating when only seven years old, first on roller skates, and then on the ice. She captured her first championship for fancy skating in 1924 at the age of eleven. Her father, who won the world's bicycle championship in Antwerp in 1893, then took her to Chamonix in France, where she had her first opportunity...
...Sonja Henie is a well made, light-haired girl with a good-natured, intelligent face and muscular legs. She is 17 and has been figure-skating champion of the world for the last three years. She has won the Olympic title once and the Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive...
...look like a pullet. On the lakes at St. Moritz, and the rink at Budapest, in London, Stockholm, she was wildly applauded. She gave a command performance for the Queen of Norway, and afterward the Queen wrote to her brother George V in England and asked him to see Sonja when she was in London. King George did as he was asked, and later that evening his wife said to Sonja Henie: "You know, I often wished I had learned skating-but one has to start young, I can see that...