Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortly after 7 p.m., grinned and handshook his way through a reception, sipping at a Scotch-on-the-rocks, then at part of another. His color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself displayed at dinner of White House News Photographers Association...
Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
...tournament at Sandwich, England. England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...
...freshman crew, Coach Bill Leavitt made only one addition before going to Red Top. The new oarsman is Dean Wood, who will row at five. Although underdogs like the rest of the Crimson crews, the freshmen, encouraged by their performance against Princeton in the Compton Cup race, should give the Elis a close battle...
...with the long-legged, light-footed girl from the U.S. Ever since November she had traipsed across Europe and Asia, swapping shots with some of the best women tennists in the world. Of 16 tournaments she entered, she had reached the finals in all, won the cup and singles titles in thirteen.* When she overpowered Britain's Angela Mortimer (6-0, 12-10) in Paris last week to win her 13th, the French women's singles championship, Althea Gibson, 28, flew over the net like a happy starling. In all Althea's long map-girdling season...