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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later the two old House leaders, both in close touch with developments, finally got together. Joe Martin arose from .his minority leader's table and trudged the 30 feet up to the Speaker's dais. Joe and Sam whispered together for about five minutes. Could they have been talking about civil rights? "Oh, no." said Joe Martin. "We were just talking about when we're going home...
Though she is near the top of a remarkable uphill career, suspicion still often lowers over the champ's warm, infrequent smile. It is only half an hour by subway from Harlem to Forest Hills, and in many ways Althea is still close to home...
...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...
...take the offensive and then temporize, pat back her volleys instead of smashing for the kill. Her booming serve gives her the basis of a sound, big game, and no woman playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more...
SHIPPING BUSINESS is sinking close to lowest ebb since World War II, and transocean charter rates are down about 50% from peak of Suez crisis. Should recession continue, it will run older, smaller ships off main sea routes. Some ships are already being laid up, but most operators hope to ride out temporary storm, are still placing orders for new ships...