Word: guayaquil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...
...Guayaquil, Ecuador, a few hours after German Vice Consul Juan Ruperti had visited the German steamer Cerigo, an Ecuadorian boarding party tried to seize her. Arson beat them...
...arrival in Guayaquil was announced in the morning paper, with picture. The title was "El Señor Bnelemaas"; the picture that of James Cromwell, who, says Bemelmans, is "the Ecuadorian ideal of the typical North American." Later, in a Quito paper, Cromwell appeared as Russell Davenport...
Ernie Pyle went to London to cover World War II as a tourist, to write about it as he used to write about the summer wind that blows across the prairies, about folks in Guayaquil, El Paso, Kalamazoo. He had been there just four days last week when Nazi bombers turned the city into a lake of fire-and overnight turned Tourist Pyle into a war correspondent...