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Such an approach may be soul-satisfying to the magazine's sponsors; but it is doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn...
There were also, of course, the Australians: blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich, husky, lob-loving Dinny Pails, bespectacled Colin Long (Bromwich's doubles partner) and temperamental Geoff Brown. They, too, had a lot to do. For their final five days of intensive practice, they engaged a sparring partner-U.S. Professional Frank Kovacs, the champion screwball of all tennis players. The Australian problem was clear-cut but tough: in just eight months they were trying to lift their outmoded, prewar game to U.S. standards...
...York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like his father -who is the New York paper's chief editorial writer...
...Brough and Tom Brown captured the mixed doubles from Geoff Brown and Bundy...
...Jack Kramer (TIME, July 8) and San Francisco's up-&-coming Tom Brown mowed down Australia's Dinny Pails and Geoff Brown...