Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanded to know what was wrong. He was told that Richardson was swinging his right foot over the service line. Play was resumed, but the U.S. pair could win only five more points in the set. The Aussies won the deciding set, 6-2, then whipped their fellow countrymen, Mervyn Rose and Don Candy, for the title...
Beating Ted seemed to be the order of the day last week. After Seixas put the U.S. team in the lead by routing Mervyn Rose, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7, Ted took the court against Sedgman. The Aussie, displaying the resounding all-court game that won him the U.S. title, whipped through Schroeder, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. This tied the teams at one match apiece and paved the way for the vital doubles point against the Aussies' Sedgman and Ken McGregor, U.S., Wimbledon and Australian title holders...
Even the U.S. singles picture was brightening. Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt appeared to be rounding into top form as he whipped Lefthander Mervyn Rose, Australia's No. 3, in a five-set quarterfinal. Savitt looked even stronger as he blasted McGregor, the Aussies' No. 2, in a straight-set semifinal. That set the Stage for a long-waited showdown with Aussie No. 1, Frank Sedgman...
Like the imperial Caesars, Producer Sam (King Solomon's Mines) Zimbalist and Director Mervyn (Anthony Adverse) LeRoy rely on these circuses to keep their audience diverted from sterner matters. For all the majesty of the theme and magnificence of the trimmings, the story of Quo Vadis, based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' 1895 novel, never rises much above the level of a good melodrama...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor over Australia's Mervyn Rose and Don Candy, 10-8, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, the postponed final of the U.S. National Doubles championship; at Forest Hills...