Word: foresters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink a potent-looking dark wine instead. We had noodles for our first course, and as we ate, Tito told stories. Once in the Soviet Union, he recalled, the Russians had given him a horse that nobody had ridden. With gestures, he described his mad ride, whipping through a forest, ducking branches that ripped his clothes, but never letting go until the horse was exhausted. Fascinated, the guests stopped eating and General Zezelj kept muttering, "Bogati, bogati...
Puffing on his pipe, Tennistar Ted Schroeder turned a lazy eye on the grim and determined young men swatting tennis balls at each other on Forest Hills' geometrical array of grass courts. "Look at those guys," he said, nodding at his fellow competitors in the National Singles. "In another day they'll be so choked up with tension they won't be able to breathe. No more of that for me. There's no pressure on me, none...
...Forest, who sometimes wonders why he ever invented radio's audion tube, made a birthday wish: that the FCC enforce its ban on "those mediocre giveaway programs" and, while going about it, slap one on soap operas...
...Australians made their challenge for the Davis Cup without lanky Veteran (30) Jack Bromwich; it would have meant a trip by air, and Bromwich preferred ships. This time the Aussies traveled Jack's way and he came along as playing captain. It helped some, but not enough. At Forest Hills last week, the Aussies took the doubles (with Bromwich and 29-year-old Billy Sidwell as heroes), but the U.S.'s Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales trod the challengers down under in the singles to keep the cup, 4-1. Australia's consolation...
National Singles Matches Sun. 2 p.m. (NBC-TV). Tennis from Forest Hills...