Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first London was jittery; it expected clashes and cracked skulls. But at Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...
...line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name led all the rest-California's Pauline Betz...
...National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships held in the South since 1914. (The A.A.U. arranged for a special Pullman car to San Antonio, so their Negro contestants would not have to ride in Jim Crow cars.) The only new world's record set at San Antonio: burly ex-Coast Guardsman Bob Fitch of Minnesota hurled the discus 179 ft. ⅛ in., bettering Italian Adolfo Consolini's mark by more than four feet...
...must first dispose of its American Zone rivals (the Philippines, Canada, Mexico) before it meets Europe's winner in August. The big U.S. tennis question was how 24-year-old ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer would do after going through five invasions, and playing little tennis for two years.* Kramer answered it in Los Angeles last week by drubbing the U.S. wartime champion, Frankie Parker, 8-6, 6-1, 9-7. U.S. Davis Cup stock jumped...
With his Dream Girl sets, boyish, 44-year-old Jo Mielziner (pronounced Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...