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...Deals. Like the Trib, the Review is dedicated to the task of turning the rascals, i.e., Democrats, out. Beyond that, there is only a casual resemblance between the papers. The Review is neither so skillfully written nor so brightly edited as the Tribune, and typographically it still wears high-button shoes. The source of its journalistic power is that, like the Trib, it fusses over its inland empire like a hen on eggs-and covers the empire as efficiently...
...Richards lost his chance to compete in the 1952 Olympic games to be held in Oslo, Norway, next month. Richards finished behind James Grogan of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Hayes Alan Jenkins of Northwestern. The American Olympic skating team includes two skaters in the men's singles division. Dick Button, 1948 Olympic Figure Skating Champion, is automatically on the team...
Four-time World Champion Dick Button, an automatic qualifier, was there for an exhibition. But the real interest centered on the purposeful tussle among a group of teen-age girls, each intent on earning one of the three team placings, and hopeful of following in the Olympic skating steps of such glamour girls as Sonja Henie and Barbara Ann Scott.* After the required "school" figures, which count 60% toward the final standings, three of the girls stood head & shoulders above the rest of the field...
...free-style part of the competition, Sonya's dazzling jumps, spins and double loops earned her top honors. Tenley was second. Said third-place Virginia: "I'm on a cloud." Joining incomparable Dick Button on the men's team: angular Jimmy Grogan, 20, of Colorado Springs, a frequent runner-up to Button, and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 18, a freshman at Northwestern University...
Richards was beaton out of first place by James Grogan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Grogan has been runner-up to Button in 11 major skating contests. Northwestern freshman Hayes Alan Jonkins took third place. There were three other competitors in the men's division...