Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Promoter-Player Jack Kramer finished his professional tennis tour last May, he first jotted down the score that interested him most: an $860,000 gross. Then he added up a secondary score: he had beaten Australia's Frank Sedgman 54 matches to 41, and had paid Sedgman more than $125,000 for taking the lumps. For this season, Player Kramer decided to stick to being Promoter Kramer...
What happened to the Boy Wonder? One critic has said: "There's little compassion in Kramer's pictures. They are cold, metallic, and beautifully done . . . But they are devoid of humanity. They don't touch your heart...
This week Kramer organized a new independent company. Plainly distressed over his experience as a mismatched cog in the Columbia machinery, he says philosophically: "I think the most important thing is whether or not I have the right to existence in Hollywood. The motion picture is not only an industry, but an art form too ... To make the best films I know how, I must go back to doing one film at a time...
...Kramer is a National Scholar, president of the Canterbury Club, treasurer of the National Canterbury Association, and vice-president of the Southerners Club...
...scholarships, awarded on the basis of "character, intellect, leadership, and physical vigor" were given to Paul Douglas Sheats, of Washington, D.C. and Eliot House, Frank Ira Goodman, of San Antonio and Lowell House, Eliot Dexter Hawkins, of New York and Eliot House, and Martin Alvord Kramer, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Eliot House...