Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before flying off to South America on a tennis tour, Big Jake Kramer had a few odds & ends to clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance...
...Munich, a denazification court gave 84-year-old Composer Richard Strauss a clean bill of health: all he had done while the Nazis were in power was stick to his unpolitical music...
...wrote a poem calling for a composer who could restore the glory of Italian music, "that altar, soiled like the wall of a brothel." Verdi, the most popular composer of the day, snapped: "If I am among those who, as Boito says, have sullied the altar, let him clean it, and I shall be the first to ... light a candle in his honor...
Avery had scored a clean K.O., but it had left Monkey Ward punch drunk. As one bigwig said, with vast understatement: "This is just no way to run a business. It's a question of how long Avery can get away with it-a big question...
...going to Europe this summer, too?" If you are, it won't be an original idea. Paris expects 100,000 clean cut young Americans on Bastille Day (July 14) or thereabouts, and a good proportion of these will be Harvard A.B.'s, 1948 vintage...