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Intellectual Skater...
...your article on Miss Maribel Vinson, the celebrated skater [TIME, Dec. 23], you give a long list of her extracurricular activities while at Radcliffe, but you fail to mention that in spite of all her outside interests she received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts With Distinction in the Romance Languages. This shows, it seems to me, that she uses her head as well as her legs...
Fortnight ago, a chill spell made firm the flooded tennis courts of the Park Avenue Skating Club. Grateful for the chance to exhibit her wares outdoors, Skater Vinson spun gracefully through the air, displayed startling designs to admirers. Finishing an elementary figure-eight, she suddenly teetered, screeched, bumped her bottom. Undamaged, Maribel Vinson rose, caressed her billowing skirts into place, twirled proudly...
Early season practices and the Framingham High School slaughter proves that there are four outstanding men who should dominate the forward walls. Austie Harding, first line center, the fastest skater on the squad and the possessor of an almost infallible shot, will undoubtedly hold his position among the favored. The Milton Academy wingmen who seem to be slated to flank the Noble's flash are Pete Stone and Miff Scaife. Eight of the Crimson goals against Framingham were rung up by this trio...
Neatly sorted into files are newspaper stories and photographs of the Foreign Secretary which he constantly collects, aided by friends all over the world who snip and mail anything they see about "Flying Sam." These remind 55-year-old Sir Samuel that he is an expert fancy skater, that he was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's host in London after the Spirit of St. Louis flight, that he won a socialite tennis championship last year at Dinard, and that he painstakingly answered as Secretary of State for India over 15,000 questions asked him by the Joint Select Committee...