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...Dick Button, recently returned from Olympic triumphs and exhibitions in Europe, told the Crimson by telephone last night from his Englewood, N.J. home that he will skate in Madison Square Garden Saturday night for the benefit of this summer's Olympic games...
Konitz looked as if he were having a hard time pushing 24. He had short cropped blonde hair and wore thick horned rim glasses. He was wearing a blue oxford button-down and a black knit tie, and seemed perpetually bent at the knees. Very tired...
Other Olympic winners of the week: Figure Skating. The U.S.'s World Champion Dick Button, 21-year-old Harvard senior who worked, between practice sessions, on an honors thesis on the Schuman Plan, won added honors-his second straight Olympic title-with some of the fanciest prances ever seen on ice. Explaining that "I can't copy anybody, because nobody has anything new," Button added his own new stunt to the figure-skating book: a triple-loop jump in which he takes off to three air-spinning gyrations and lands on the same foot with hardly any perceptible...
Yesterday, Button had already obtained a commanding lead over his nearest contender, Helmut Seibt of Austria, and was picked to clinch the title today...
Lussi said that he had never seen Button put on a better performance...