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...international tennis by the back door. Althea sneaked up on the game by playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem. She was 14 when she so impressed a Police Athletic League supervisor that he bought her a full-size racket. Later the pro at Harlem's Cosmopolitan Tennis Club taught her court tactics and coaxed her into daily practice. By 1948, at the age of 20, she was Negro women's champion. The prim and proper U.S.L.T.A. could not long evade inviting her to Forest Hills, and there, in 1950, she gave former National Champion Louise Brough...
Cockeyne. Annette, a "cosmopolitan ragamuffin," according to her diplomat father, begins the novel by leaving finishing school because teacher, who was reading Dante, said the poor Minotaur was suffering in hell. Since Annette feels that the classical monster* can't help being a monster, she leaves, not neglecting to swing on a chandelier on the way, and goes out to live the exciting life of a junior myth...
...Mais naturellement. This new fringe benefit business, of course. Who on the faculty gets a fringe benefit--the monastic scholar, dedicated to his work, or the brilliant cosmopolitan researcher and man-about-town? Oh no; it's the faculty drudge who barely manages to get out a small paper and an insignificant book review in between taking care of the furnace and changing the baby's diaper. He's your fringe man. It's a matter of principle," he said...
...COSMOPOLITAN WORLD ATLAS [Rand McNally; $13.95) is a fine new atlas chockful of up-to-the-minute information about every quarter of the globe...
...give an American employee $10,000 in take-home pay, a company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...