Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a bald spot now where his familiar blue beret used to be, but his thin face, jerky, stiff-armed strokes and debonair air were unmistakable. It was Jean Borotra all right, back on the same Manhattan courts where he had four times won the U.S. indoor tennis title...
It had been more than a decade since U.S. tennis fans had seen France's Bounding Basque in action. It had been even longer since the Davis Cup matches which established Borotra as one of tennis' all-time greats. In the interim, Borotra had been Minister of Sports...
* With Jacques Brugnon (now non-playing) and Marcel Bernard, other oldtime French Davis Cuppers, to raise money for the rebuilding of Paris' bombed-out Stade de Coubertin, heart of French indoor tennis. It was inconveniently near the Renault factory.
Max Reinhardt brought Korngold to the U.S. in 1934 to arrange Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music for the screen. Since then Korngold has written some of the movies' best music, won two Oscars (for the scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood, Anthony Adverse). Currently...
Of the squads to be met by the Varsity, both Maryland and Navy have been outdoors for longer periods than the Crimson, and the College Park squad has already opened its season with a 9 to 3 victory over Drexel on Thursday. The Middies, who play their first game on...