Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia, which already boasts three of the world's best amateur players (Sedgman, Ken McGregor and Mervyn Rose), has such strength in depth that a pair of downy-cheeked 17-year-olds named Kenneth Rosewall and Lewis Hoad may well keep the Davis Cup in Australia for another decade...
...ranking Vic Seixas and Australia's third-ranking Mervyn Rose, the National tennis doubles championship, by defeating Australia's World-Beaters Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, 3-6, 10-8, 10-8, 6-8, 8-6; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass...
Speaking at, of all places, South Africa's Roodepoort Rotary Club luncheon last week, a white anthropologist told his all-white audience that Negroes are the most advanced type of human. "If you can swallow it, the Negro is the true human," declared Dr. Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys. "Man's common ancestor was dark-skinned . . . You," Jeffreys assured his astonished listeners, "are just bleached specimens of original, dark-skinned primitive man . . . While we [whites] were still dark-skinned, the Negro sprang from our dark ancestor. He is the newest species...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, the London tennis title-final warmup for Wimbledon -over his Davis Cup teammate, Mervyn Rose, 10-8, 6-2; in London. Doubles winners: the U.S.'s Budge Patty and ex-Czech Jaroslav Drobny over Rose and Australian Don Candy...
Favored entry in the diamond sculls competition is Mervyn Wood of Australia, the 1948 Henley and Olympic champion...