Many a nine-year-old girl nowadays wants to skate like Sonja Henie. One was Dorothy Goos, daughter of a Bronx electrician. When she was nine, she was taken to see Sonja Henie in the motion picture, One in a Million. That very night she began to nag her father for a pair of ice skates. The following week, the stage-struck gosling, like millions of other Henie-worshipers, was flapping around an ice-covered pond.
That was four years ago. Last week Gosling Goos was actually being mentioned in the same breath with her idol. Competing in the junior division of the National Figure Skating Championships...
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