Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden days of amateur tennis, the road to a pro contract was paved with silverware from Wimbledon and Forest Hills. No longer. Stripped of nearly all its top-rank players, amateur tennis is in the doldrums, and Pro Promoter Jack Kramer has been forced to develop his own stars. Best of Kramer's new proteges is Spain's Andres Gimeno, an agile 23-year-old who never won a major amateur tournament...
...Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet had come permanently unstrung...
...Fanned Lather. Life is going relatively smoothly these days for Judy. She has toured successfully since February, with a short break to play a brief dramatic role in Stanley Kramer's film Judgment at Nuremberg. She will soon tape a television show for next season, is considering a Broadway show. Most important, Judy, at 38, is singing at her best, far above the level of two years ago, when she appeared, puffy-faced and uncertain, at Manhattan...
Born. To Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 32, durable old pro of Jack Kramer's play-for-pay tennis troupe, and Madelyn Darrow, 25, Miss Rheingold of 1958: twin girls, their first children (Pancho has three by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles...
Long before they routed the Italians, Fraser and Laver had received fat offers from Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. To date both players have insisted that they will not turn pro. If they stay true to their word, Neale Fraser and Rod Laver now stand so far above their rivals that they might very well rule world amateur tennis for years to come...