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...other Crimson victories were recorded by John Hawkins and Bob Seelert. Peter Tague and Wayne Thorn-brough each lost two down...
...self-congratulation about her book than there was about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly Musical Comedy Star DeWolf Hopper, a so-so career in films, and finally a column in 1938-and then turn to the kind of keyhole chitchat about "mad, gay, heartbreaking" Hollywood that...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Playing with the authority of a Wimbledon championship behind her, Althea lost not a set as she worked her way onto the center court for the payoff match with California's Louise Brough. A canny and experienced campaigner who had won the title herself just ten years ago, Louise tried every trick she knew to stave off the inevitable. She pounded Althea's weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots...
Playing to please herself, just how good is Althea? Fortnight ago she led the U.S. team to an easy Wightman Cup victory (TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten...