Word: flamming
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...Midsummer Night's Dream, the girl with the esthetic face was cast as the cutie-heroine of Alibi Ike, a baseball picture starring Joe E. Brown. Later she appeared as the ingenue in Captain Blood, opposite Errol Flynn. Henceforth she was frozen into a cycle of Flynn-flam. Says she: "It almost drove me crazy...
...opening rounds, Forest Hills fans rooted loudly for every young face. Talbert was the first of the Three Old Men to go; he lost to Eric Sturgess, 28, a smooth stylist from South Africa who was making his first trip to the U.S. Next day young (19) Herbie Flam of the University of California at Los Angeles stroked Mulloy's head...
...chunky, 26-year-old Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia slammed a total of 43 service aces at each other. Pancho wore him out in four sets, 8-10, 11-9, 6-0, 6-3. In the second match, it was style instead of power. Sturgess scored only two aces, Flam none. Time after time, Sturgess' deep forehand drives kicked up the chalk on Flam's baseline. When Flam moved in to the net, Sturgess stayed in his back court, scored with deft passing shots. He won his match in straight sets...
That meant that Pancho no longer got the benefits of specialized coaching, got no expense money and no invitations to the best tournaments. Being taboo at the swank Los Angeles Tennis Club, he drifted over to the public park courts. Just the opposite of Pancho was Herbie Flam: he was hardworking, well-behaved and a model Jones boy. Under Jones's careful handling, Herbie Flam twice became national junior champion. Last week lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Pancho Gonzales wangled an invitation to play in the Southern California Championships and soon came face to face with Herbie Flam...
...breezed through them; then Pancho liquidated two opponents who had been considered good enough to sidestep qualifying matches. His usual lethargic, mañana attitude was gone, replaced by a calm, white-toothed grin and a cannonball service. In the third round he met and disposed of Herbie Flam, 8-10, 8-6, 6-4. Said Pancho: "I don't think he'll ever beat me again unless he's playing especially good and I'm bad." It was a big victory for Pancho, even though he went on to lose to the best amateur...