Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHALL MARCH AGAIN (374 pp.)-Gerhard Kramer-Putnam...
...Dead, From Here to Eternity). The losers wryly argue that they were pushed around in a brawl they never made (All Quiet on the Western Front). As two-time losers, Germans have become experts in the blues of defeat. The latest sample to reach the U.S. is Gerhard Kramer's first novel, We Shall March Again...
...Mankiewicz (The Barefoot Contessa) were jockeying with each other and with Italian Director Alberto Lattuada (Mill on the Po) to get a head start in shooting the life of Goya in its original Spanish setting. All three want Marlon Brando in the title role. But so does Director Stanley Kramer, whose new film, The Pride and the Passion, will be entirely photographed in Spain...
Whatever the reason, Jack Kramer, former U.S. amateur champion (1946-47), last week remembered out loud that he had earned a pretty penny playing even before he turned pro. Everybody knows that "amateur" tennis-tournament travelers get fat under-the-table fees, wrote Big Jake in This Week magazine-everybody, that is, except the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. And why blame the players? Why call them tennis bums? Topnotch tennis is a 52-week-a-year job; tennis stars have to earn a living like anybody else...
...Kramer's suggestions for cleaning up the game are straightforward enough: get the payoff above the table. Hold open tournaments and let both amateurs and pros compete for prize money, "as clean and candid a reward as there is." In Wiesbaden, Germany last week, where this year's crop of "amateurs" were competing in another tournament, Kramer's plan was cheered. "Every one of us in this tournament is paid, and if we weren't, you can be damned sure there wouldn't be a one of us here," said one player. "What...