Word: ladislav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladislav Rieger, a member of the Communist "action committee" which had taken over the Czech universities, con tinued the battle for the "new humanism." When he finished, Germany's Walter Brugger remarked: "I see no difference between the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Naziism." A hurt, weary look appeared on Rieger's face. "Always the same confusion," he sighed...
Francisco ("Pancho") Segura from Ecuador turned up in U.S. tennis two years ago as a two-handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung...
Before last week's tournament, Pancho had played in three spring tune-ups: he won the coveted old Brooklyn champion ship (defeating onetime Czech Davis Cup per Ladislav Hecht in the final) ; reached the semi-finals (where he took two sets from onetime Wimbledon Champion Sid ney Wood) of the Orange (N.J.) Invitation Tournament...