Word: sonya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both dealt with the French Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...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...
...free-style part of the competition, Sonya's dazzling jumps, spins and double loops earned her top honors. Tenley was second. Said third-place Virginia: "I'm on a cloud." Joining incomparable Dick Button on the men's team: angular Jimmy Grogan, 20, of Colorado Springs, a frequent runner-up to Button, and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 18, a freshman at Northwestern University...
...Women's division, 16-year-old Tonley Albright of Newton Centre, Mass., won first place, beating Sonya Klopfer, who outpointed her for the Women's National Championship last spring. Virginia Baxter, a Michigan State freshman who is more noted for free skating than figure skating, turned in a fine performance to take third place...
...many listeners to Mr. Paul Cadbury on Thursday night, I should like to make two comments on the letter from Sonya Chamberlain in your Monday issue...