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...judges in rubber overshoes shuffled carefully out onto the ice rink of the Empire Stadium at Wembley, England last week, to confirm what a crowd of 8,000 already knew: that Dick Button of Englewood, NJ. was the best figure skater in the world...
...Tuesday night in London Richard T. (Dick) Button '52 firmly established hmself for the third successive year as the world's greatest living figure skater. Since he captured the United States Novice Championship seven years ago in his first national competition, Button has swept 12 other national, world, and Olympic titles, besides introducing to competitive skating a tremendous variety of jumps that were unknown before he came on the scene...
...heat of the play steadily increased as Sullivan made it 9-7 at 16:14 and the Arena went berserk when Jack Carman was put off at 18:27 for high sticking and BC pulled its goalie in favor of a sixth skater...
...house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...because of Buttons proximity, uses more direct quotes than in any other chapter. Like the other articles, this one is well-documented and factually correct. Button was angered at an early ago by the prediction of an impatient teacher, who said he could never learn to be a figure skater. His determination to "show" this teacher ultimately led to his international success...