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...Tenley Albright '57 swept the Women's North American Figure Skating Championship completed yesterday at Regina, Mont. Hugh C. Graham '55 placed fourth in the men's singles...
...ahead on points after skimming through the compulsory figures, honey-haired Tenley Albright, 19, stood poised and calm on Vienna's open-air rink as the band swung into a lilting melody. Then, with all the confidence of a champion, long-legged Tenley glided out to begin her free skating-the difficult double loops and axels and double salchows of her own devising...
...time for a lesser competitor to turn careful. In 1953 Tenley won the women's world figure-skating championship, but last year when she started the free figures with the same confidence, a double flip dumped her flat...
...went home an also-ran. Last week the pretty premedical student from Radcliffe College seemed to dare the same accident to happen again. Flip she did-to perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...
...Tenley Albright '57 is almost certain to regain the women's individual figure skating crown which she won in 1953 but lost last year, experts at the world championship contest in Vienna said yesterday...