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  Laurence Owen - Wikipedia
Laurence Richon Owen (9 maggio 1944 – 15 febbraio 1961) fu una pattinatrice statunitense, campionessa nazionale nel singolo donne.
Anche la sorella maggiore Maribel Y. Owen, pattinatrice pure lei, si qualificò per i mondiali vincendo il titolo nazionale nelle coppie assieme a Dudley Richards.
Laurence Owen venne sepolta con la madre e la sorella, pure vittime del disastro aereo, nel Mount Auburn Cemetery di Cambridge, nel Massachusetts.
wikipedia.kataweb.it /wiki/Laurence_Owen   (314 words)

  
 Figure Skating Fiction, Short Stories, Novels, Humor, and Poetry at Private Ice Publications
Owen's death in the 1961 plane crash that took the lives of many U.S. figure skating greats helped him to realize that he wanted to pass on his knowledge of the sport to new generations.
The Owen family suffered the loss of 16-year-old Laurence Owen (the newly-crowned ladies figure skating champion), Little Maribel Owen (the U.S. pairs figure skating champion with partner Dudley Richards), and Maribel Vinson Owen (a nine-time U.S. ladies figure skating champion who now coached her daughters).
Owen was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1976 and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2002.
www.skatefic.com /figure-skating-trivia   (14903 words)

  
  Owen figure-skating family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result of her championships, Laurence Owen was a member of the American team that was scheduled to compete in the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Laurence Owen is interred next to her mother and sister in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Laurence Owen planned to attend her mother's alma mater, Radcliffe College, with a view to eventually becoming a writer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Owen_figure-skating_family   (1494 words)

  
 Owen figure-skating family Summary
Owen has received a Bread Loaf Scholarship (1960), the Henry Bellamann Foundation Literary Award (1964), a Yaddo Fellowship (1968), the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup in 1969 for The White Stallion, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award in 1970 for his third novel, Journey for Joedel, which was also recommended for the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Rather, Owen is very much aware of the elements of threat in the daily lives of semisubsistence farmers, and he is equally aware of the strength and creativity meeting such threats requires.
Maribel Y. Owen was 20 years old when, along with the rest of the U.S. skating team, she died with her sister and mother in the airplane crash near Brussels, Belgium while on their way to Prague.
www.bookrags.com /Owen_figure-skating_family   (2820 words)

  
 Lest we forget! - The Cat Arena
Why, even their marquee member - ladies' singles champion Laurence Owen of Winchester, Mass., whose beaming picture adorned the cover of the Feb. 13 issue of Sports Illustrated on display at newsstands in airports across the planet - was an inexperienced queen, merely 16 years old.
She had roomed with Laurence Owen at the Squaw Valley Olympics the previous year and had told her, ''My time is over.
Laurence Owen seemed to be incredibly talented! I just look at her in a "still" pic and can see the grace she carried ~
www.thecatarena.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8463   (6775 words)

  
 Retrospective: 1961 US Figure Skating Championships
Owen was a senior at Boston University majoring in sociology and anthropology.
I had never seen anything but the briefest of clips of Owen's skating before, so this was all new to me. She had a real "presence" on the ice -- she was wearing an elegant drapey-cut dress, had a radiant smile, and moved as if she'd had quite a bit of dance training.
whether Laurence Owen and Doug Ramsay might have turned out to be the first big stars of the television era of skating, for instance, or whether television by itself would have provided the impetus for the USFSA to broaden its membership base.
www.frogsonice.com /skateweb/articles/1961-nationals.shtml   (3697 words)

  
 Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/20/2006 | U.S. skating team's life after death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Laurence, meanwhile, at 16 the national women's champion, may have been the most promising skater of the bunch.
Laurence was a wonderful skater and a beautiful girl who would have been a breakout star."
Among the Boston-area pupils of Maribel Vinson Owen was Frank Carroll.
www.philly.com /mld/philly/sports/13914474.htm   (1096 words)

  
 Owen Wilson - Defamer
In today's column, Fox 411's Roger Friedman points out that the members of Steely Dan are very, very cross with Owen "The Butterscotch Stallion" Wilson for starring in You, Me, and Dupree, but not because the movie, by nearly all accounts, profoundly sucks.
Not surprisingly, Owen "The Butterscotch Stallion" didn't say much during his Daily Show interview last night--the Stallion is a creature of majestic, beautiful deeds, not words.
A heavy-lidded (read: possibly shitfaced) Wilson was accosted by paparazzi while leaving a restaurant in London last night, where he was "partying with not one, but four, ladies," causing him to blot for the comparatively flashbulb-free environment of a nearby vehicle.
defamer.com /hollywood/owen-wilson   (1686 words)

  
 Town of Winchester
Nine times she won national women’s figure skating championships and was three times a member of US Olympic teams.
Laurence Owen won both the National US Ladies Championships and the North American Championships.
On Feb. 15, 1961, Sabena Flight 548 carrying the U.S. Figure Skating team to the world championships in Prague crashed in Belgium killing everyone on board, including Winchester’s beloved Maribel Vinson Owen and her daughters Maribel and Laurence, both members of the team.
www.winchester.us /ArchivalCenter/Sports.html   (1699 words)

  
 Laurence Owen Prudential Sussex Realty Sunshine Coast BC Canada
Laurence Owen Prudential Sussex Realty Sunshine Coast BC Canada
Laurence Owen, a Real Estate Agent on the Prudential Sussex team, invites you to come and explore the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
Discover why this little known coastal community is becoming so popular and why they call it the Sunshine Coast.
www.laurenceowen.com   (122 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Maribel Vinson Owen": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Laurence was part of a family figure-skating dynasty.
Her mother, Maribel Vinson Owen, had won nine U.S. National Championships in the ladies event, six championships in the pairs event (...
On that plane was one of the world's most promising skaters, sixteen-year-old Laurence Owen, the daughter of ten-time U.S. champion Maribel Vinson Owen, also killed in the crash.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Maribel-Vinson-Owen   (451 words)

  
 Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team by Emmis Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
(the reserved, newly crowned pair champion with her boyfriend Dudley Richards), and Laurence Owen (the 16 year old, vivacious singles skater who was poised to succeed Albright and the lovely Carol Heiss as queen of the ice).
Author Nikki Nichols focuses mostly on the Owen family (nine time National Champion Maribel Vinson Owen and her daughters, "Little Maribel" and newly crowned National Champion, 16 year old Laurence) and Stephanie Westerfield, Laurence's closest rival and her sister Sharon.
She designated a chapter to the main skaters in 1961 that died, including Laurence Owen, Steffi Westerfeld, and other skaters.
www.naturalskincare.ws /stuff-1578602602.html   (1487 words)

  
 Kansas City Star | 02/25/2006 | Cohen continues U.S. success on ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
She was the mentor for Albright, who won silver in Oslo, Norway, at age 16 — just five years after taking her first steps again in her recovery from polio.
Then Vinson Owen’s daughter, Laurence Owen, was projected as the next golden girl.
Vinson Owen was one of six U.S.-based coaches who died in the crash, as was Bill Kipp, who had a 12-year-old student named Peggy Fleming back in California.
www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/sports/13957589.htm   (828 words)

  
 Laurence Owen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
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 Owen2 Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
1783 Tax Assessment of Real Estate named Laurence owen son of Edward to differentiate from Laurence son of John.
Laurence Owen had a wife named Sarah as early as 1772.
This indicates that many of the heirs had left the state; including Laurence and Sarah Owen Hardy Estate Suit.
www.familytree.mcpherson.net /owen2_source.htm   (299 words)

  
 International Figure Skating Forum > Not sure if this is the right place for this
The entire team (including coaches) was killed in a plain crash on their way to Worlds.
Maribel Vinson Owen, who is tied with Michelle Kwan for winning the most US ladies singles titles, was among those on the plane as were her two daughters (one was the US singles champion, the other part of the US champion pairs team).
The book covers the events leading up to the crash (like US Nationals) as well as some interesting tidbits about things that happened afterwards.
www.ifsmagazine.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t125.html   (358 words)

  
 AnEx Publications - SecretAgentMan - 1961 - A Promotion for Joe
On February 13, Sports Illustrated hit the stands featuring a breathtakingly beautiful, angelic and innocent looking 16-year-old figure skating champion on the cover.
Laurence Owen, from Winchester, Massachusetts, was the newly crowned queen of the US figure skating team.
It was Valentines Day when the 18-member team boarded a Boeing 707 out of Idlewild airport in New York.
www.anexx.com /SAM/1955_1970/1961.htm   (369 words)

  
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'Laurence Bach/Portfolio', Close-up (Polaroid), January 1982, pp 13-17.
'Laurence Bach: Pieces from Paros', Fotografia, Greece, September 1981, pp.32-39.
'Laurence Bach: Paros Shards', Aperture 82, February 1979, pp.
laurencebach.com /info.php   (151 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Laurence Owen": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
See all pages with references to Laurence Owen.
Their two daughters, Maribel V. Owen (1941-61) and Laurence Owen (...
1959: Laurence Owen; 1958: Barbara Ann Roles; 1957: Carol Joyce Wanek; 1956: Joan Schenke; 1955: Nancy Heiss; 1954:...
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 1964 Olympics — FactMonster.com
Two athletes, 50–year-old British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skyszpeski and 19–year-old Australian downhill skier Ross Milne, were killed taking practice runs less than a week before the Games began.
And three years before, on Feb. 15, 1961, a plane crash in Belgium had killed 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team—including America's top female skater, 16–year-old Laurence Owen.
Springlike temperatures plagued Innsbruck both before and during the Games, forcing the Austrian military to carry in over 50,000 cubic meters of snow from higher elevations.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300766.html   (331 words)

  
 Sports Illustrated - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
The plane crashed 15 February 1961, two days after Owen's cover appearance.
This athlete was paralyzed in a skiing accident the week her cover hit the stands.
Indy racer Pat O'Connor and figure skater Laurence Owen were both killed trajically days after their respective covers came out.
www.funtrivia.com /en/Sports/Sports-Illustrated-10389.html   (1510 words)

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