Word: hartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's final, San Diego's hard-driving Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly won her second Wimbledon title in a row, 8-6, 7-5, in a brilliant baseline match with Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla. It was the eighth all-American women's finals in eight years...
When Martha Rountree beckons, big people in Washington come arunning. As mistress of ceremonies of the television show Meet the Press, Florida-born, belle-like Martha controls a precious segment of Sunday evening air for which politicians yearn as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. Last week Martha had a party, the gaudiest since Marie Antoinette opened at the Trianon, or at least since the night when a foreign ingredient got into Mrs. Murphy's chowder...
...Paris. 18-year-old Kenneth Rosewall, Australia's national tennis champion, ran roughshod over the U.S.'s second-ranking amateur, Vic Seixas, to win the French title, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. In an all-American final, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly defeated Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4, for the women's title...
...fastest time ever recorded by a club member was 26:05, by John H. Hart '52, now at Yale Medical School. Hart entered the club with a time of 26:06 last May, shortly before he won his second Wellesley bike race...
Tears from Adolf. Near the end of The Rommel Papers comes a gripping chapter on Rommel's death, written by his son Manfred. After the German reverses in Normandy, Rommel was convinced the jig was up, advised Hitler repeatedly to end the war. Neither Liddell Hart nor Manfred Rommel makes it clear to what extent the general was involved in the plots against Hitler, but one day in October 1944, Rommel was at his home in Herrlingen recovering from the wounds suffered when his staff car was shot up. At about 12 o'clock, a dark green auto...