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When lanky Frank Kovacs, a buffoon but also a first-rate tennis player, was kicked out of amateur tennis in 1941, he hollered over his shoulder: "Amateur tennis stinks-there's no money in it any more." He joined the ranks of the pros, then went into the army...
Frank Kovacs seemed surprised at the commotion his statement raised in the nation's sport pages. Said he: "I thought everybody knew. The Pacific Southwest championships at Los Angeles put up the most . . . they paid Riggs $800 one time. It all depends on what country you're in...
Among the players who use and have used these courts with a great deal of enjoyment, we can name Miss Alice Marble, and Messrs. Donald Budge, William Tilden, Frank Kovacs and many others - even some of the editorial staff of your own magazine. . . .
In a quiet, almost deserted Bridgeport (Conn.) courtroom last week, State's Attorney Lorin W. Willis asked that the case be dismissed. He droned that he had "... a reasonable doubt or more" that Imogene Stevens was guilty of manslaughter. Tiger-eyed Imogene, killer of 19-year-old Navy Seaman...
Tabloid readers sighed with disappointment : they had been hoping to hear, in all its details and in several different versions, the story of what happened that June night in sedate New Canaan. Others, notably the family of Seaman Kovacs, had a more serious complaint. Imogene had said she fired in...