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...rare occurrence of late when Harvard can produce a national champion, and it is certainly something to write home about when the College can come up with two championship athletes at once, but that's just what happened early this month in Seattle. Dick Button annexed his sixth consecutive National Senior Figure Skating crown, and freshman Dudley Richards took first place laurels in the Junior competition...
...strength of these performances both Button and Richards are now en route to Milan, Italy, for the World Championships held on Friday and Saturday. They will compete against each other in the Senior competition, at which 60 skaters representing 12 foreign countries will be present...
Although the two Crimson athletes have known each other for years, this will be the first time that they have skated against each other. Richards earned the right to join the American World Championship team by winning the Junior title. For Button it will be old stuff--besides six U.S. Senior tities, he won the World Title last year and the Olympic competition...
...Alpe-d'Huez, France, the German four-man bobsled team over the U.S and Switzerland, setting a course record of 1 min. 11.65 sec. and making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In Seattle, Dick Button, 21, world figure-skating champion, for his sixth consecutive national title. ¶In Boston, Miler Don Gehrmann, for his sixth straight victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt, in the track-record time...
...sybaritic than a homosexual Mr. Dulcimer who has brought up his adopted son Julian to have the most expensive tastes and play a purely decorative role. Then at 23 Julian falls in love. Mr. Dulcimer can only counter by saying that marriage means being cut off without a button. Love, with a spineless young man who hates work, proves no match against luxury. At the end, Julian has not only inherited his guardian's money, but has adopted his fastidious ways...