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...neither Wood nor wooden floors could beat California's Jack Kramer. The champion hugged the baseline, matched Wood's finesse with power and control, won in three hard-fought sets, 6-3, 6-4. 6-4. In the finals, two days later, he faced Bobby Falkenburg (brother of Jinx), whose tremendous first serve and smashing net game had been too much for Davis Cupper Billy Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back...
Engaged. Robert Falkenburg, 21, rangy, seventh-ranking U.S. tennist, brother of Jinx; and Lourdes Marink-Veiga Machado, 19, bright-eyed Brazilian beauty; in Manhattan...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...
With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...
Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 27, radio & film actress (Two Latins from Manhattan Cover Girl), and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35, Horatio Algerish man-about-town, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror, who stars with his wife on the radio program "Hi Jinx": their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick. Weight...