Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freedom of Soul. At one point the hearing came close to winding up as a melodrama. While Brooklyn College's Biology Professor Harry G. Albaum was testifying about his gradual seduction by the Communist Party, a hefty, ham-handed man slipped into a rear-row seat in the hearing room. Recognized by an alert committee aide as Constantin Radzie, who was born in Russia and became a U.S. citizen in 1937, the spectator was served with a quick subpoena and taken to the witness stand. Scowling like a wrestler, Radzie denied that he had been sent by the party...
...luck of the draw, Sedgman ousted his teammate, Hoad; Mulloy, playing one of the best games of his career, outlasted Rosewall jn five sets. The other semifinalists: Rose, Aussie No. 3, who whipped Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s No. 2, in straight sets; ig-year-old Ham Richardson, the U.S.'s No. 7, who outlasted Straight Clark in five sets...
Last week, at the New York Diabetic Association's Camp NYDA, 80 diabetic youngsters got a stirring show of what they can do with themselves. Two fellow diabetics, U.S. Davis Cup Captain William Talbert (33) and ninth-ranking Amateur "Ham" Richardson (19), turned up to play a strenuous exhibition tennis match on the camp's one ramshackle court. Winner: Talbert...
Between games, Ham and Bill sipped orange juice to restore the sugar balance in their blood. Later they had lunch with the campers, and Talbert explained how he came to take up tennis in the first place: to burn up sugar and so cut down his insulin take. The kids could see for themselves that there was really nothing to prevent a diabetic from becoming a top-flight athlete, although one or two frankly wondered how Old Man Talbert could keep up the pace...
After a year of airwave conversation, Prince Talal, 22, son of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, flew to Sardinia to meet a ham-radio pal, pretty Maria Marras, 23, daughter of a Cagliari dentist. The visit over, the Prince gave Maria a present: a new $1,500 antenna for her set calculated to bring his voice in loud and clear...