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May 22, 1967 - Champion Skater in 40ft. Plunge: World ice-dancing champion Bernard Ford will have to wait two days for the doctor's verdict on how a 40ft. any effect his career. Bernard fell from a ledge outside first-floor flat at Spanish Place, Mary lebone, where a party was being held early yesterday. A boy had fallen sleep in the lavatory after looking the door, and 19-year old Bernard volunteered to crawl along the ledge and get in through a window. But he lost his grip and plunged to the basement. Bernard's partner, 20-year-old Diane Fowler, said after visiting him in hospital; I don't think he has any broken bones, but his legs are badly bruise we will not know it is certain we will miss a television exhibition at Nottingham next month and a trip to Colorado in August. Bernard does not drink, and I am sure the techniques learned in ice-skating helped him lesson the effects of the fall. Bernard of Bristol Gardens, Maida Vale, and Diane, of Holland Perk Gardens, Kensington, retained their world title in Vienna two months ago. Photo Shows Diane Fowler at the bed side of Bernard Ford, in hospital yesterday

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