Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towns 20 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Texas got different versions of TIME'S Aug. 20 issue. In Harlingen, 240 subscribers received a magazine in which the Press section contained stories on the Cincinnati Post's crusade against municipal graft and a sketch on the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. In nearby Raymondville, county seat of Willacy County, 70 subscribers got copies in which the Press section reported the life & death of Press Lord William RandolphHearst.*The difference represented the kind of magazine reporting made possible when the best in highspeed communication and printing equipment...
...newest star on the U.S. tennis horizon is a 20-year-old Cincinnati boy named Marion Anthony (Tony) Trabert. Already this year he has twice beaten the U.S. champion, Art Larsen-once on clay (in the final of the National Clay Court championship) and last week at Southampton, on grass, the more significant surface (because all top tournaments are played on grass courts). Said Frank Shields, the non-playing Davis Cup captain : "If Trabert progresses as much during the next four weeks, he's going to be a world beater. He whips a cross court shot very much like...
...quick footwork of a basketball player (which he is), and an ambition to become the world's best player. Trabert owes much of his fine game, and his determination to make it the finest, to his friend and doubles partner Bill Talbert, a New Yorker who hails from Cincinnati himself. Says Trabert: "He's like a brother . . . My tour of Europe with Bill in 1950 did much to raise my game. I learned so much that I couldn't absorb it all. Now it is sinking home and I'm putting it into practice...
...Trabert ranked twelfth in the U.S. This year, after playing a winter of basketball at the University of Cincinnati (Class of '53, majoring in political science), Tony has moved up fast in the tennis world. His 1951 record: the tri-state championship (over Talbert); the clay-court championship (over Larsen); the intercollegiate championship (over Earl Cochell); the Southern championship (over Jack Tuero); Davis Cup singles and doubles victories (over Japan). His only loss: the final of the Blue-Grey championship (to Tuero...
Before the Senate Finance Committee last week appeared Cincinnati's John F. Lebor, representing some 1,000,000 members of the American Retail Federation and the Retail Industry Committee. His group had once opposed a national retail sales tax because they thought it would hurt their business. But now, Lebor told the committee, which is considering the pending tax bill (TIME, June 25), retailers want Congress to pass a retail sales tax. They think it would hurt them-and the rest of business-less than the sky-high corporate and individual rates in the pending bill. The new rates...