Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make No Mistake." That night, before a mixture of liberal and radical Democrats, well peppered with Reds, Henry Wallace made his speech. The rally was to open the campaign in New York. Florida's Russophile Senator Claude Pepper had brought down the house when he cried: "With conservative Democrats and reactionary Republicans making our foreign policy ... it is all we can do to keep foolish people from having us ... drop our atomic bombs on the Russian people." (His speech was much more fully reported in Moscow than Wallace...
...Sojourning (indefinitely) in Paris: Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Florida's plangent Senator. As representative of the People's Mandate Committee, Mrs. Pepper will haunt the coulisses of the Conference until she has interviewed all the leaders of the 21 delegations. First to be bagged: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who told her that he will recommend postponement of the U.N. General Assembly (now scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 in New York City) "until the end of the year." Mrs. Pepper also asked the Foreign Minister what he considered the chief stumbling block to the Peace Conference...
Tennis for the King. The Betz Club got its first foreign seasoning in June. For the first time since 1938, the top five U.S. women players-Betz, Osborne, Brough, Pat Todd and Florida's Doris Hart-headed for England to play Britain's top women in Wightman Cup competition. The U.S. team blasted Britain's out-of-practice best off the courts in seven straight matches without dropping a set. Betz won the Wimbledon Singles crown, a glory at least equal to the U.S. championship. In Paris three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz...
...first real tennis instruction (from Bruce Ainley, pro at swank Town House), Pauline set the alarm clock for 5 a.m., took a basketful of balls to the practice court and worked on her strokes until it was time for school. At 21, she won a scholarship to Florida's tennis-conscious Rollins College, played No. 4 on the men's team and got enough As in the classroom to earn a scholarship in economics at Columbia. She didn't like Manhattan's weather, and quit Columbia after six months. At 23 she was national champion...
...worst since 1916. By last week there were 5,622 cases, some 1,600 more than at the same date in 1944 (the previous runner-up to 1916). Hardest hit: the South and Middle West. Minnesota had an epidemic (965 cases), and the disease was severe in Texas, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri...