Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming out into the light for the first time since he disgraced himself by winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Russia's Novelist Boris Pasternak listened to a performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in the day, Conductor Leonard Bernstein had led the players in passages from...
U.S. tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids...
Fallen on such hard times, U.S. tennis experts turned to fretting about the uneven bounces produced by the chewed-up grass courts (predicted Kramer: "Some day all of Forest Hills will be cement"), grumbled that the big serve and put-away volley were ruining the game. Few outside the closed...
The freckled 15-year-old blonde gripped the starting block with her toes, inhaled deeply, and hit the water at the gun with long, smooth strokes. When she flashed home last week in 4:55.9 for the 400 meters, Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif, had broken her U.S. record...
Flat v. Round. By dugout standards, Jones is something of a wit, delights in snipping up the socks and shorts of teammates, who retaliate by cutting the brims off the hats he wears to cover his thinning, reddish-brown hair. Jones also always wears a toothpick in a corner of...