Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...each day, music played by a natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...
...sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...
...government's anti-Communist coal administrator, who had defied a Russian demand for his resignation but imprudently stayed at work in his Russian-sector office. The British arrested the German head of the Russian-sector criminal police, who had gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist cop and the U.S. official were soon released; it looked like...
...Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare of the match I saw that his tiny pig eyes were bright with tears...