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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Married. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, No. 1 ranking U.S. tennis player in 1933 and onetime Davis Cupper (1934); and Katharine Mortimer Biddle, 26, Manhattan socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...open secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: So He Took the $50,000 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...designer and chief exponent of this aggressive, high-pressure tennis is California's Jake Kramer. He is the U.S. singles champion, the Wimbledon champion, the No. 1 U.S. Davis Cupper in both singles and doubles. In other words, he has proved that he is the best amateur tennis player in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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