Word: albright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lasted about as long as it took to get an answer. Once she found the locker room and laced on her skates, World Figure Skating Champion Carol Heiss, 16, became all business. She was about to compete for the U.S. title in the rubber match with Massachusetts' Tenley Albright, four times U.S. champion, and winner of the Olympic championship last month in Cortina, Italy...
...from acting like enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was "started by a newspaperwoman." But when they skated onto the rink, all became cold precision...
...Pony-tailed Carol stood aside, in the loquaciously doting care of her mother, while Tenley glided into the "school figures," the required set of tight patterns that each contestant had to trace and retrace with geometric certainty. Around the smooth curves of a figure eight pretty Pre-Med Student Albright floated through her intricate gyrations. She was careful to lean so that she rode on only one edge of her hollow-ground blades, careful to switch from edge to edge without "flatting," i.e., scraping the ice with both edges at once, careful always to give the appearance of complete control...
With a skill that seemed equal to the casual eye, Carol Heiss performed the same graceful maneuvers and the judges went through it all again. Using computations too complicated for the casual spectator, they parceled out points. Albright got 1,001; Heiss got 9.4 fewer...
Barring an unexpected turnabout in the next day's free figure trials, this meant that Tenley Albright had beaten Carol Heiss again. No one else was close. "Oh, the judges like Tenley." whispered Mrs. Heiss to a companion. "They always do." Then she searched out Tenley Albright's mother, Elin, and congratulated her. "We've just lost the championship," Mrs. Heiss told newsmen. "I have already congratulated Tenley's mother, and I asked her to put it on record that I congratulated her this year one day ahead of time...