Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Chester Wilmot, 42, Australian-born military correspondent, best-known in the U.S. for his bestselling 1952 book, The Struggle for Europe; in the crash of a British jet airliner off Italy's west coast (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Melbourne Argus, felt called upon to write an open letter to Australia's two 19-year-old tennis prodigies, Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall, trying to take the pressure off the youngsters. Gist of the letter: "If you lose, it will not be a major tragedy in Australian history...
...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...team to Australia this fall, he was feeling pretty chipper about U.S. chances. After all, he had the U.S. champion, Tony Trabert, 23, and the Wimbledon champion, Vic Seixas, 30-a nice blend of youth and experience. After his champions had been bounced out of a couple of Australian warmup tournaments, Captain Talbert stiffened his lip and switched to a "don't-count-us-out" attitude. But confident Aussie bookies decided they had seen enough, counted out the Americans as 3-1 underdogs in the Davis Cup finals with Australia-assuming the Americans got past Belgium...
...Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young (27) Briton Thomas Hinde. Two others, slickly competent, successful and considerably overrated by reviewers, were John Phillins' The Second Happiest...