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World champion Dick Button built up a strong lead yesterday at the midway mark of the Men's National Figure Skating Championships in Washington...
Next on the Championship agenda is the improvised "freo" skating event in which Button is considered to be without parallel. His tour de force, unduplicated by any skater in recent years, is a jump called the "double-double-axie." In this text, Button comes into the jump skating backwards, leaps into the air, and executes a two-and-a-half body spin. The complete maneuver covers about 30 feet...
...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...
...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...