Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...
After that, the fans settled back in their seats to. see if big Jake Kramer, 29, was still the best player in the world. Little (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.) Pancho Segura had been playing in pro preliminaries for two years while Kramer was knocking over the 1948-49 headliners, Bobby Riggs and Pancho Gonzales.* Segura had finally earned a shot at Kramer by winning the pro title last spring...
Bandy-legged, Ecuador-born Pancho Segura had Jake's number from the first. He covered court like a bird dog in a chicken coop, took the sting out of Kramer's big serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer...
This week, hauled before the congressional committee, he reluctantly consented to name three men who had been fellow Communists in the '30s-John Abt, Nathan Witt and Charles Kramer, three other former New Deal job holders in Wallace's AAA. This, however, was as far as he wanted to go. He apparently hoped it was far enough to get back to a new law practice among loyal Americans, with an honorable scar to bare to the clients...
Producer Stanley (Champion, Home of the Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...