Word: merion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's six-girl Wightman Cup tennis team, which sometimes outshone the U.S. girls in looks but not in form, and went to defeat for the 13th consecutive time, at Haverford, Pa.'s Merion Cricket Club...
Last week, spectators jammed the small gallery at Haverford's (Pa.) Merion Cricket Club to watch 21 topflighters fight it out for the national singles championship. It was like looking down from the observer's roost of an operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached...
...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
John W. Susskind '46, 22, Merion, Pa., Dunster House, Economics, House athletics and sub-committees...
ELIZABETH NORRIS LYNCH Merion, Pa. ¶ TIME forwarded Reader Lynch's $50 check to ex-Army Air Forces Chaplain Ayers, now a Presbyterian pastor in Wilkes-Barre, who says he will use the money to develop an inter-faith committee on "religion and returning service personnel...