Word: bromwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first full day in the convention city, Nixon received a silver candlestick and an endorsement from the Young Republicans, saw delegations from Michigan, Wisconsin, New York (where Tom Dewey had given him an unqualified, effective endorsement), Pennsylvania and Missouri (where Delegation Chairman Elroy Bromwich remained a feeble flicker of anti-Nixon sentiment). Next day came eight more delegations, and the day after that, nine. Also on the program: a trip to the International Airport to greet Dwight Eisenhower...
...Champion Trabert, who had an nounced his hopeful intention of winning all four of the world's major tennis titles,* was the first to snap. It came in the quarter-finals of the Australian championship, against a canny old (35) party named John Bromwich, who first won Australia's title when Trabert was a lad of eight...
Tony breezed through the first two sets, 6-1, 6-1. Then, while the Aussies cheered themselves hoarse, Bromwich began rushing the net. And Trabert, further embittered by a close line decision, kicked the match away. He refused Bromwich's thoughtful offer to forfeit rather than beat the tournament's No. 1 drawing card, went down 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in the last three sets. Stomping off the court, Trabert snapped at Aussie newsmen: "I have noth ing to say. You can make up your own story." Next day it was Seixas' turn to make...
...Bromwich, the 35-year-old, two-fisted racquet swinger and former Aussie and Davis Cup star, was down 1-6, 1-6 only to come back for a 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 victory in the last three sets...
...three ensuing months in Australia gave him a fine postgraduate course. In the Australian championship, after beating wily Veteran John Bromwich in the quarterfinals, Savitt faced two-time Champion Sedgman in the semi-final bracket. The match went to five sets, and in the fifth, Sedgman spurted to a 4-2 lead. Savitt, always tense when he's ahead, simply relaxed and began hitting winners, won four straight games and the match. In the final, against rangy Ken McGregor, "I felt that nothing could stop me." McGregor couldn't. Dick won handily...