Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upsets studded the first week of the All-England championships at Wimbledon, which more than ever seemed to be dominated by Australian men and U.S. women. Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, 1954 champion, was beaten by an Indian with a rapier backhand called Ramanathan Krishnan. Ashley Cooper, the 19-year-old Australian whiz, beat third-seeded Sven Davidson of Sweden, and then Cooper himself was outlasted by unsung Allen Morris, onetime Georgia Tech footballer. Elegant Budge Patty, 1950 champion and seeded fourth, was ousted by Britain's hard-hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala...
...over par), which assured his 16th defeat in 16 tries at the Open. Jack Fleck, last year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back, even though he had taken horrendous sevens to fill two of the cavities in the first...
Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world records; in Melbourne...
Lost in an Igloo. They made an odd pair. They called each other "Joey"-the Australian word for an infant kangaroo-but there was never doubt as to who was in whose pouch. Perles used to put his name to Miller's early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...
...exception to the rule that all U.S. cruisers are named after American cities, because the gallant Australian cruiser Canberra met its end along with three U.S. cruisers in the Battle of Savo Island...