Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year was Laurence Olivier, whose Oedipus and Hotspur reminded Broadway of the difference between adequacy and excellence, and whose Henry V could not have reminded Hollywood of anything it had ever seen before. Sportsmen of the year came in pairs: Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder re-won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in the year's last week, and Army's Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis made their last appearance in the game against Navy that was almost lost in two of the most exciting minutes of football history. (President Truman had left the stadium and missed...
...Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...doubles champions, in 1940-41) teamed up against Bromwich and Adrian Quist, it was Schroeder's day again. Even though he made winning shots look difficult where Kramer made them look easy, it was Schroeder who carried the load with his smashing net game. That clinched the Cup for the U.S., for the first time since 1938. Another two-man U.S. team, Big Bill Tilden and Little Bill Johnston had taken the Davis Cup from the Australians in the same way 26 years...
...crony-Australia's ambidextrous Jack Bromwich. Their games were unlike: Kramer is an enthusiastic big hitter, Bromwich is strictly a baseline hugger. Says Kramer: "I have the kind of game that can beat him if I am absolutely right." On their match would probably turn the Davis Cup of 1946. Experts agreed that none of the other three Americans-Frank Parker, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy-nor Australia's Adrian Quist, Dinny Pails and Newcomer Colin Long were any match for the Jacks...
...burned out a bearing, lost a rod and had plenty of flat tires. There were additional refreshment stops for Bromwich, 20, who became acquainted with banana splits and ate four or five a day. That was the year that Bromwich and Quist upset the U.S. team and took the Cup home to Melbourne. There it has stayed, unplayed for-because of the war-ever since...