Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson, 30. In the final, Althea efficiently walked over Britain's Angela Mortimer 8-6, 6-2. But nowhere was there a sign of that combustible quality that lights the eye of U.S. Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. Said he: "I don't want any of these guys, let alone...
...Britain, whisper it gently," breathed the Times of London, "may today win the Wightman Cup." But one match the Times was ready to concede to the U.S. was between World Champion Althea Gibson and a strapping, 17-year-old blonde named Christine Truman. Christine had got the British team off to a promising start by beating second-ranking U.S. Tennist Dorothy Knode, but did not seem in the same class with Althea. "To expect Miss Truman to defeat Miss Gibson," said the Times sadly, "would be to expect anarchy...
...women in the nation's early days used powdered chalk and fresh-cut beet juice for beauty, but the onset of the Victorian age made "paint and powder" the hallmark of the dance-hall girl or the woman of the street. The Gibson girl, created by Artist Charles Dana Gibson, was the modest and aloof dream girl of U.S. males in the early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented...
...course, using the "Language Through Pictures" method developed by I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Christine M. Gibson, research associate in Education, is designed especially for use in underdeveloped countries, where teaching man-power is limited. It can be used either as a supplement to a regular course or by itself...
...half-hour lessons will be based on the text and stick-figure drawings of English Through Pictures by Richards and Miss Gibson. However, each lesson will include two live sequences, using local actors, to aid in comprehension, and to give the students variations in American voices, accents and personalities...