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...into service was veteran Margaret Osborne du Pont. 43. who had not played a Wightman Cup match in three years. The other U.S. girls-none over 18-looked raw and unpromising alongside such seasoned British stars as Wimbledon Champion Angela Mortimer, Runner-up Christine Truman, and French Champion Ann Haydon. What made the upset all the more upsetting was the 18-year-old who engineered it: a rangy (5 ft. 6 ½in., 125 Ibs.) brunette from St. Louis named Justina Bricka...
...comparatively unknown actor, was superb as Luciano-full of gutter cynicism, arrogance, brutality, and yet at moments pathetic. The show's spontaneity derived partly from the fact that the lawyers involved were real, some of the best courtroom performers in New York (Richard Steel William Geoghan Jr., Charles Haydon,' Benedict Ginsberg), who ad-libbed much of their argument. On the griddle this week: Huey Long. Later: Arnold Rothstein, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, and former New York Mayor James J. Walker...
...south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds is a 62-year-old, greying Andy Gump, a man who "does not believe Jacksonville is ready for integration...
...excitement began building with the very first match. San Diego's petite Karen Hantze, 17, was within one game of upsetting Ann Haydon when she began over-hitting in her eagerness, eventually lost 2-6, 11-9, 6-1. Then Darlene Hard, a power-hitting ex-waitress from Montebello, Calif., increased the tension by coming from behind for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Britain's 6-ft. Christine Truman. When Darlene and Karen needed just 45 minutes to humiliate Ann Haydon and Angela Mortimer in the doubles, 6-0, 6-0, the U.S. seemed...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...