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...time tennis counted its blessings and found them many. They were headed by "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston, about to begin their famous battles, and behind them were other tennis greats: Kumagae, the lefthanded Jap; Australia's Norman E. Brookes, Vinnie Richards. On the distaff side Suzanne Lenglen, the greatest girl player ever to swing a racket, had just gained control of her strokes, if not her temper. Helen Wills, a poker-faced youngster, was on her way up, copped the U.S. Nationals in 1923. In the tournament lists were names like Mallory, Bundy and Wightman...
Born. To Mayris Chancy Martin, 34, distaff side of the la-de-da Chancy & Fox dance team, Eleanor Roosevelt protégée whom Congress waltzed out of OCD in 1942; and Hershey Martin, 34, San Francisco orchestragent: their first child, a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: Anna Eleanor (for Mrs. R., godmother...
Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...
...article [TIME, June 18] on "The Shape We're In." The composite figure shown as a pictorialization of how the average American girl looks with her clothes off is, I regret to say, too, too, true. . . . The daily press releases from home show that the average American shape, distaff, definitely lacks something...
...Louis druggist's daughter with a fine voice. Now, with her heroic proportions (200 lbs.) exhibited to best advantage in sleek costumes by Hollywood's Adrian, her Isolde and Brünnhilde give her every right to queen it over the Metropolitan Opera's distaff contingent...