Word: cooperators
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what is surely the year's most brilliantly glittering cast. For the main roles they hired Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster and David Niven. And for the supporting parts they got four of Britain's most distinguished performers: Wendy Killer, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt and Felix Aylmer...
...charged with molesting a woman in a local cinema, and the newspaper reports that he was not a major at all but only a lieutenant, and that he spent the war in a supply depot. This makes for several other complications because the resident battle-ax (Gladys Cooper) soon starts swinging for The Major's head. She demands that he be forced to leave the hotel, even though-or perhaps because-she knows that her shy, hysterical daughter (Deborah Kerr) is in love with the old fraud...
Next he made fat offers to Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson, the two players on whom Australia is depending to defend the Davis Cup. All the while he kept up a drumfire of criticism against the embattled L.T.A.A., many of whose members argued bitterly that Kramer should resign from the U.S. team if he was going to spend his time recruiting the Aussie Cup defenders. Complained one official: "Kramer's a member of the U.S. team, and that means we have to invite him to official functions. It's a pretty ticklish situation when you have to play...
...matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS CUP FROM US. But in the Victoria championships last week, Butch pulled a thigh muscle, failed to survive a third-round match with formidable Neale Fraser...
...enough for Australia this year. U.S. Kingpin Ham Richardson was far off his game, and Butch Buchholz was still a year or so away from top form. But Kramer is more of a threat to the Aussies as a promoter than a coach. If he succeeds in luring away Cooper and Anderson in 1959, Buchholz & Co. may give the U.S. its best chance in five years to recover...