Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come before the streamlined 1947 Ford, previous California champions had to blaze the trail. First there was the California Comet, Maurice McLoughlin, whose weapons were lethal but lopsided: a smashing serve and volley. Next in the California line came Little Bill Johnston with the big forehand, then Ellsworth Vines with a bullet serve and an even more devastating forehand. After that was Budge, who had an all-court game and an incomparable backhand. Jake Kramer has something from all these predecessors; perhaps the nearest likeness is to call him a cross between Vines (on whom he consciously modeled his game...
...Loses a Set," when he dropped one to Australia's Dinny Pails in the semifinals. It was the only one of 22 sets he lost all week. Said the Daily Mail's veteran tennis critic Stanley Doust: "I rate Kramer equal to Donald Budge, and better than Ellsworth Vines or Fred Perry...
Died. Albert Ellsworth Thomas, 74, prolific writer of nimble and successful plays (The Big Idea, Come Out of the Kitchen, No More Ladies), onetime 1926-28) chairman of the Pulitzer Prize drama jury; after long illness; in Wakefield...
...Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...Vegas, Nev., precocious Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, who won tabloid glory by running off with one mother-of-two when he was 14, another mother-of-two when he was 16 (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945), turned 18 and contemplated settling down. He was looking for a job, said he, so he could marry a friend...