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...Thurber married Althea Adams, then a sophomore at Ohio State and one of the prettiest girls on the campus. He was chafing to write something better than city council doings, but had little confidence in his ability to make good outside...
Columbus. Urged on by Althea, he finally decided to assault New York by way of France, which he had loved in his code-clerk days. When they had saved up $125, they took...
That fall and winter, he bombarded The New Yorker, a struggling humorous weekly little more than a year old, with 20 pieces, all of which were rejected. Althea argued that he was sweating too much over them and suggested that he bat one out in 45 minutes. On his next Sunday off, he did. It was about a man who got caught in a revolving door. The New Yorker bought...
...Althea Gibson, first Negro to play in a South Florida tennis tournament, over top-seeded Betty Rosenquest, 6-4, 6-2, for the Good Neighbor title...
...Women's Championship almost had a form upset when Althea Gibson (TIME, July 17), first Negro ever to play in the Nationals, carried Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough to within one game of match before rain stopped their second-round contest. But next day, 22-year-old Tennist Gibson no longer had her touch or speed, and she went out of the tournament...