Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
Directed by Miss Margaret Witt, of the Veterans Office, the survey had covered by last night all of the Law School except fifth-termers and the whole of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In addition, the College had been sent cards to fill out, which will be tabulated after the return deadline tomorrow...
...girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
...expected, the British team-a combination of campaigners past their tennis prime like Mrs. Menzies, and youngsters on the way up like blonde, 19-year-old Joy Gannon-was no match for Margaret Osborne, Louise Brough, Doris Hart and Pat Todd. Just as last year, the world-beating U.S. team swept all matches, won 7 to o. But the British had their moments. Betty Hilton forced Doris Hart to a touch-&-go third set; Miss Hart's hairline passing shots finally...
...Margaret Osborne, 1947 Wimbledon champion and the world's ranking amateur, Jean Bostock got much more than the single point she had hoped for. With a tenacious retrieving game, she took the second set, lost the third and deciding one, only when Miss Osborne got her forecourt game going full blast. With an earnest manner and a well-displayed figure, Mrs. Bostock succeeded in making the Forest Hills crowd unmistakably pro-British...