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Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made...
...born in 1890, it has since been squeezed out there and almost everywhere else by simpler & slower squash racquets, nowadays is largely the hobby of a fairly small group of players in the Manhattan area. It is played with a green, net-covered, two-and-one-half-inch rubber ball and a ten-ounce lawn-tennis-style racquet on a 32-by-18½-ft. court. Players alternate in serving against a wall, score points only while in service...
Parent of all the racquet games is court tennis, which Nausicaa and her maidens reputedly played by batting a ball with their hands. For the last 700 years it has been played with a lopsided, gut-strung racquet that looks as if it might have been left out in the rain. Once the game was a pastime of the European masses, but like other mass delights, it has become much too good for them. Since the 15th Century every British and French king worth mentioning has played it, moving one of its chroniclers to write: "It is the characteristic game...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are no bigger than a pin-head or at most a golf ball. Their great light energy is generated by the terrific speeds at which they hit the earth's atmosphere...
...magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...