Word: flams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of the play, Robert Jordan has less to work with. But if the author has given him little personality, Jordan has enough and to spare of his own. He takes the part in his rumpled, boyish manner, and his quiet superbness goes beautifully with Miss Wylie's flam-boyant brilliance...
...first time since it invaded Australia, the U.S. Davis Cup team looked like a collection of topflight tennis players. Veterans Vic Seixas and Herbie Flam overpowered the Philippine team, 5-0, served notice that they will have little trouble with Belgium on their way to the challenge round...
...Clay Court championships in Chicago last week, Wimbledon Champ Althea Gibson, 29, aiming squarely at next month's U.S. singles championships, overpowered California's Darlene Hard, her Wimbledon opponent, 6-2, 6-3. In the men's finals, aging (33) Vic Seixas downed Herb Flam (28) in a pattyball party by the score...
...Denmark's mustached Kurt Nielsen, 26, sometime madcap of the amateur-tennis circuit, minded his manners all the way through the U.S. indoor championships, foiled Dick Savitt's comeback in the semifinals, overpowered California's Herb Flam in the finals...
...Rosewall and Lew Hoad hardly worked up a sweat making a clean sweep (5-0) of the challenge round for the Davis Cup. They breezed by the worst U.S. team in years, got no real opposition from Pennsylvania's Vic Seixas or California's Herb Flam, had only momentary trouble with an up-and-coming Texan named Sam Giammalva. With the big silver punch bowl lost to the Aussies for the second successive year, wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right after the matches...