Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby Riggs v. Jake Kramer (Wed. 8:30 p.m., CBS television). The nation's ranking professional tennists, from Madison Square Garden...
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said...
...Jake Kramer had finally proved that he is the best tennis player going. It was suspiciously close for the first weeks of their nationwide tour, with Big Jake winning one night and Bobby Riggs the next. People began to talk (TIME, March 1). Then Kramer's big service began to come alive...
...Riggs played deep on Kramer's serve, Big Jake put so much angle and spin on the ball that his opponent landed up in the bleachers trying to get his racket on it. If Riggs played in close, Big Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first...
...reading was arranged by Mr. Herbert J. Kramer of the English A department, for the benefit of some sections of the course which are studying "St. Jean...