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Holmes does, however, usefully point out the strength of Thurber's Mid-westernism, and his ties with Columbus, his home town. He shows the writer fumbling for a point of view: writing with outrageous sentimentalism, for instance, about a tennis match between Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen, then finding a way to blend the sentiment and fantasy in the woolly reminiscence of The Night the Bed Fell...
...TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten her. But at an age when all the other topflighters are slipping downhill or have retired (e.g., Maureen Connolly, Shirley Fry), Althea...
...manners became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...
...done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
Tilden v. the Women. Big Bill is cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...