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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...
...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...