Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their testimony, a grand jury, under the energetic prodding of Circuit Judge Harry F. Russell, finally indicted three detectives for manslaughter. (One of them had been cleared of a charge of prisoner beating...
Next week it will wait in vain. For the second time in 62 years, Newport will have no Tennis Week. World War II has blasted Newport tennis off the courts-as World War I did in 1917.* Also blasted off the big-time summer tennis circuit are Seabright, with its 56 courts flanked by trees, estates; and Longwood, with its box-square stands flanked by bus and trolley lines out of Boston...
...Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
Gala Ghost. Most luminous ghost will be the Newport scene itself. Since 1881, when the brand-new Casino held the first U.S. national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since...
...Louis. Mary Lou, born in Pittsburgh, was one of eleven children. She started playing and composing at six. At 14 she was taken on the Orpheum Circuit. The following year she played with Duke Ellington and his early small band, the Washingtonians. Today she is one of Ellington's arrangers. But her mind keeps turning to oldtime sessions with the Kansas City greats: Benny Moten, Pete Johnson, Joe Turner, Count Basic. Mary Lou's special contribution was an unearthly swinging dirge which the boys called "zombie." It was musicians' music. Asked if she would...