Word: palfrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swing into Sports (Mon. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont Television). Tennis specials. M.C.: Sarah Palfrey Cooke...
With the enthusiasm of kids opening a lemonade stand, the tennis firm of Pauline Betz & Sarah Palfrey Cooke went into business. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, had lined up 34 dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the two women who had ruled U.S. amateur tennis for six years. But Pauline and Sarah decided to give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged...
...were Seelye Bixler, president of Colby College and last occupant of one of the two now-vacant Divinity School chairs; Ernest C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago: Harry Cotten, president of the McCormick Theological School at Chicago; Remhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary; and Reverend Palfrey Perkins '05, minister at King's Chapel...
Facts & Figures. She had been found guilty, not of succumbing to the temptations of professional tennis, but merely of inquiring about them. A month ago in Manhattan, Pauline Betz had asked friends how well a pro tour with ex-Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke would draw. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, wrote a brazenly open letter to 1,200 tennis clubs here & abroad, suggesting that Pauline and Sarah might be willing to play on their courts for a small fee-say, $350 on weekdays and $500 on weekends. In natural bewilderment-for even a tennis amateur is not allowed...
...Face. Last fall, after three years as national champion, Pauline Betz had her first major setback, from 33-year-old Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who came out of retirement to tournament play. Sarah took the crown away from Pauline at Forest Hills...