Word: mcneilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haverford, Pa., spectators watching the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship last week did not have to be told who the topnotchers were. Most of them had long been familiar to tennis fans. Seeded No. 1 was 22-year-old Don McNeill of Kenyon College, who had twice defeated Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, had won the U. S. indoor tennis championship two years ago, had trounced U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the final of the French hard-court championship at Paris last year, and last fortnight, at Chicago, had beaten Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker (top and second-ranking...
Seeded No. 2 was 21-year-old Joe Hunt, Annapolis midshipman, U. S. doubles player (with Jack Kramer) in the Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...
...Swift & Co. had tentatively agreed with Glore, Forgan & Co. last April to sell its control of Libby, McNeill & Libby to the public; 3,018,000 shares were to have been filed with...
...handsome, athletic Henry Wisdom ("Tex") Roden, who took over as president when Founder Clapp sold out, this growth was a triumph. Despite the competition of big firms such as H. J. Heinz Co., Beechnut, Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc., his firm claims 25% of the industry's yearly $15,000,000 gross business, runs a dead heat with Heinz for first place. Some 35% of U. S. babies feed on prepared baby food. Fields as yet untapped (aside from the rest of the infants) are the stomach ailment trade and oldsters who may need a strained food line of their...