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...most hopeful young hopefuls of U.S. tennis-Dick Savitt, 24, and Tony Trabert, 20-both came a cropper last week in the Eastern Grass Court championships, at Orange, N.J. In each case an old tennis hand was the obstacle that sent the youngsters arsy-versy: Gardnar Mulloy, 37, and Billy Talbert...
...Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 29 et seq.), Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team, known as the "Pride of Peoria," kept uncontaminated. Last week Peoria's pride came a cropper. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan announced that eight Bradley players, including All-America Gene Melchiorre, had been hand in glove with gamblers. Also involved: four members of Toledo University's team. ¶ For 13 years a group of alleged musicians, calling themselves the Dodger Symphony Band, have tootled happily...
...favorites (at 8-1) were Irish Jumper Shagreen and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Arctic Gold, his fifth Grand National entry. But at the fifth jump (a 5-ft. fence) Shagreen tumbled. Arctic Gold, who took the lead at the sixth-treacherous Becher's Brook-came a cropper two jumps later...
Cloak & dagger romance and bustles-and-bows nostalgia both have their merits-and faithful droves of customers. It is a lucky author who can straddle the two fields without coming a cropper. In Author Thomas Bertram Costain's case, a firm hand with historical fiction (The Black Rose, The Moneyman) has been no guarantee of success with the gentler, slower-moving Gay Nineties period piece...
...easy-to-read books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about 80 Dutch women & children taken by the Japanese at Padang in 1942 and thereafter marched round Sumatra for 2% years. Mrs. Geysel...