Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the chips down, Schroeder finally evened the matches at 2-all by beating Rose, with Kramer's sideline coaching, 6-4, 13-11, 7-5. But it was too late. Sedgman was at the peak of his form as he slashed through Seixas, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, to keep the venerable cup in Australia for the second straight year...
...midst of the Davis Cup tennis match, Referee Cliff Sproule waved his hand and stopped play. The Sydney Stadium crowd began to buzz as Sproule got up and walked to the front-row grandstand seat, where U.S. Coach Jack Kramer was sitting. The referee spoke to Professional Kramer briefly, turned on his heel, and went over to speak to U.S. Captain Frank Shields and Australian Captain Harry Hopman. Then Sproule ordered play resumed...
Sproule's action was new for big tennis matches, but so were a few other items on the Davis Cup program last week. Sproule had apparently caught Kramer coaching from the sidelines, a breach of tennis etiquette. As it turned out, etiquette took a bad beating-almost as bad as the trouncing Australia's Frank Sedgman gave the U.S. team...
Death of a Salesman (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) treats the text of Arthur Miller's 1949 Broadway hit with the respect due a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award. The unflinching tragedy of Willy Loman, whose phony dream of success leads him straight to failure, is a bravely uncommon movie to come out of Hollywood, where dreams are the stuff that success is made on. Unhappily, it is also a disappointing picture...
...adaptation might have been better if Producer Stanley (Champion, The Men) Kramer had taken a few enterprising liberties with Miller's original. On the stage, broken-down Salesman Loman was mentally awry; he talked to himself out loud, and his words led into dramatized fragments of his past and figments of his mind. In the stylized technique of the play, it seemed acceptable that none of the other characters ever did anything about his mental condition. On the screen, he is still speaking his disordered thoughts at the top of his lungs. But to the literal...