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...start, most experts picked Ecuador's flashy Francisco ("Pancho") Segura as the ultimate winner. Pigeon-toed Pancho of the two-handed drive delighted the crowd with audible pep talks to himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...
...edited by, a Colombian sociologist (for two years a visiting professor in the U.S.) of 33 selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes and villains from Pizarro to Pancho Villa, is set in cities, plains and jungles from the Caribbean to Cape Horn...
Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the defending champion. He is currently enrolled in Miami College...
...sounding off"--We feared for a while that Kel was being made to recite the Constitution--Tom Gaines for marching without the aid of his Seeing Eye dog. Jack Frost says, "Gaines is the only man in the world whose Seeing Eye dog needs a Seeing Eye dog."--Bob "Pancho" Bisbe, for his gallant, well-concealed maneuver in removing one ambidextrous spider from a friend's neck--Vern Nelson for marching all the time without his book...
...York). Lugg will be going to Canada for the rest of the month with the Farley band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after Louis Armstrong departs. If, after that, George has to fall back on such embarrassing jobs as the one he had with Pancho's band at the Copley Plaza last fall, he plans to stay in Boston and join Charlie Vinal's band at the Copley Square (provided that the sponsors' bankrolls haven't been depleted!) on the strength of his belief that playing jazz a couple of nights a week for union...