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Both of them had crossed the Atlantic with European titles on their minds. In Prague's Winter Sports Stadium last week, Canada's 19-year-old Barbara Ann Scott had hers to defend, and New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button...
Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
...Barbara Ann's handlers plainly considered the European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
...proved a tougher contest than Barbara Ann anticipated. A sharp, high wind off the Vltava River (the Moldau) troubled all contestants in the precise school figure events. And a 53° temperature the day before had thawed the ice in the open-air stadium and left it bumpy and irregular, making it hard for the judges to check the tracings of the figures. Barbara Ann finished her school figures out in front-but two of the seven judges had not picked her for first place. Two days later, in the free skating, Barbara Ann easily distanced the competition, boosted...
Most gawked-at conferee: 21-year-old Barbara Jo Walker, a Memphis Sunday-school teacher who also happens to be Miss America of 1947. Fellow delegates hung on her every good word. Typical was a freckle-faced Kentuckian who fell into step beside her as she was leaving one of the meetings. "You're so important and all," he said, "I was wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace...