Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's two-man Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth...
Last October Richard Miller, a St. Louis motorcycle cop, returned from 30 months in the Navy and began to organize his colleagues. Within a few weeks he claimed 900 of the city's force of 1,900 as Federation members. Then St. Louis' Board of Police Commissioners (appointed by the Governor) ordered Miller fired-for violation of a rule against a policeman joining an outside organization. It also ordered those cops who had joined the union to resign from it or be fired, required them to make written reports of their withdrawal...
...Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, ex-light-heavyweight champion turned actor, paid $10 in Chicago for speeding, but he felt put upon. "Everything was going O.K. until the cop found out who I was," he complained. "Then he took advantage of my stupidity...
...done a horrible thing. When he came sneaking back to Bill's room later on, Bill chased him off to Texas. But George kept writing him letters (always copying Bill's script) and then he came back to Chicago and promptly started on more burglary. When a cop knocked him cold with a flowerpot in an apartment foray one night, George turned out to be Bill...
...outdoor team championships in 1939 and 1940. Sakamoto was gunning for the 1940 Olympics, but they were called off. In 1941, before war dispersed them, Sakamoto's protégés won their third outdoor A.A.U. title; and one of them, Bill Smith, son of a Honolulu cop, broke most of the world's records from 200 to 800 meters...