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...Dick Button Competes in the 1950 National Figure Skating Championships in Washington, D.C. today. The 20-year-old sophomore, a resident of Lowell House, won the title last year, and is a strong favorite to repeat his performance...
...Button, who captured the world crown in London earlier this month, is expected to have little difficulty with other contenders. Hayes A. Jenkin of Akron, Ohio, G. Auston Holt of Berkeley, California, and Richard Dwyer also of Berkeley, are rated as his top opposition. Jenkins and Holt placed third and fifth, respectively, in the international competition...
...Future. The garden variety of double-Axel, which was the Button sensation of 1949 in the free-skating event, requires the performer to come into the jump skating backwards. The rest of the requirements: a tremendous leap, 2½ body spins, a feather landing, and a smooth blade-cut left in the ice. Few skaters can think of attempting it; this year Button did two in a row, to make it a double-double without the slightest pause, covering 30 ft. in the whole involved maneuver in about two seconds. He was glad when the double-double was over. "Those...
Since Dick Button had won everything in sight in amateur skating, rink fans wanted to know what he would do next. Last year, when he was still a Harvard freshman, word went round that he might turn pro after the 1950 championships, to cash in on his crowd appeal as 1948 Olympic Women's Champion Barbara Ann Scott had done. Last week Sophomore Button settled that rumor. Said he: "Think I'm crazy enough to sweat through two years of Harvard and then not finish...
...large, each in its own red brick building. Most, like the 61-inch lens, are used for taking pictures, seldom for direct viewing. The newest of these is the Jewett Memorial telescope, which was completed just after the war; its whole building revolves at the push of a button. With all this modern electric equipment around them, however, observers still freeze throughout the winter. Since the sensitive lenses cannot take quick temperature changes, and have to stay in the open all night for use, the buildings are never heated; students must supply themselves with fur-lined gloves and woolen caps...