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...Ecuador Dynamo Segura had swept every tournament this summer; his opponent, 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Kramer, former Men's Doubles titleholder, not only had not seen a grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets...
...first played with the skull of a hated Dane) soccer fans pack stadiums seating 100,000 to 150,000. In Moscow a few years ago 2,000,000 fans applied for tickets to an international match between Turkey's No. 1 team and Moscow's beloved Dynamo Club (Russia's New York Yankees...
...Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...
...reporter had posed a familiar question about General Charles de Gaulle's Rightist connections (which have worried some, pleased others). But it transformed M. Guigui into a dynamo of sudden eloquence...
...Dynamo that turns this enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers...