Word: loops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Threes & Eights. When Barbara Ann skates, she seems to float on ice. She turns effortlessly and unexpectedly-only clever performers can manage that-and never has to push to get up momentum for an eight or a loop-change-loop. She always seems to be enjoying herself, and as a result people always enjoy watching her. She has equilibrium, charm and style. A U.S. skating judge, who likes to define the quality of a skater in one word ("push" is his word for Sonja), puzzled over Barbara Ann a while, then described her quality as "femininity...
Riding the crest of a five-genie winning streak, Winthrop's quintet will seek to preserve its margin in the House court loop when play picks up a week from tomorrow. "There will be plenty of hot basketball before the end of the season in March," Samborski predicted, with Dunster, Eliot, and Dudley all sporting top squads...
...attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago's Loop traffic from the Palmer House to the Stevens. The cops along the way had a fine understanding of his problem...
Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Three teams from Thayer, two from Matthews, and one each from Holworthy, Lionel, Mower, Stoughton, Weld, and Wigglesworth will compose the new loop. Dormitory proctors will serve both as coaches and referees...