Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt about who the finalists would be. Top-seeded was Defending Champion Bob Brady, 30, a muscular (5 ft 11 in., 178 Ibs.) San Francisco cop, who learned his handball at Central High School in Butte, Mont. Seeded No. 2 was stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 173 Ibs.) Brooklyn Fireman Vic Hershkowitz, 35, who won his first tournament at Coney Island in 1938. Since then, Hershkowitz has won 14 national titles, including (in 1952) the one-three-and four-wall singles...
...Fireman Hershkowitz, slowing down a bit at 35, had a particular incentive for winning: no one in handball history has ever won more than 14 nationals. A sharp hitter with both gloved hands, Hershkowitz counted on his fast, hopping serve. Slam-Banger Brady ("I hit the ball awful hard") relied on his overhead kill shots...
...final round without the loss of a game. Defending Champion Brady, who builds himself up for championship events by taking on two opponents at a time, lost only one game on his way to the final. With some 400 handball fans crammed around the glass-enclosed court, the Brooklyn fireman and the San Francisco cop had it out. The winner (21-15, 21-18) and champion for the 15th time: Fireman Hershkowitz...
...Glenn Miller Story (Universal). One summer evening in 1939, three teenage girls in Philadelphia were listening so raptly to Glenn Miller's record of Moonlight Serenade that they failed to observe a fire in the house until a fireman rushed in to put it out. Bandleader Miller has been dead since 1944, when a plane carrying him to Paris-he was an Air Force major touring military posts with his band-went down in the English Channel. But millions of feet his music once made itchy will surely itch again at the mention of his name, and carry their...
...debut as a fillin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, three years ago. Since then she has answered several other fire calls, including two for Gilda in Rigoletto (for Hilde Gueden and Genevieve Warner), one for Adele in Fledermaus (for Virginia MacWatters). But Soprano Peters is more than a high-class fireman...