Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Parker from California played his first matches at Forest Hills ten years ago as a 16-year-old pride of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley. For a decade one of the first ten ranking U.S. players, Parker developed the steadiest game in contemporary U.S. tennis, but he could never win against brilliance, had never won the national title. This year gave him his chance. The first full test came when he met Segura in the semifinal round...
...Parker's dark sunglasses, grave face and deliberate air help his reputation as a "colorless" player. Tennis connoisseurs found nothing insipid in his management of the first two sets against Segura. Hitting with perfect length on both forehand and backhand, using always the exactly appropriate stroke, and subtly increasing the pace and angle of his shots when Segura left the court slightly open, Parker made just seven errors in two sets. Segura seemed lucky to get one game...
Moscow realized that one of the grimmest winters in grim Russian history was drawing near. Yet New York Timesman Ralph Parker found "little brooding or despondency," even in homes struck by war casualties. The common experience of air raids, battles, occupation and flight drew the people together. As war's sharp elbow kept nudging their ribs, the Russians snatched what pleasures they could...
Among the men, there is no outstanding newcomer this year. Hence, the men's singles should go to one of the four top-rankers who have found time to compete this year: 26-year-old Frankie Parker (on vacation from his job as assistant to the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's special-effects department), Lieut, (j.g.) Gardnar Mulloy (on leave after completing his indoctrination course at Annapolis), Ted Schroeder (scheduled to be inducted into the Navy the day after the tournament ends), and Billy Talbert (not yet called by his draft board...
...year the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association has again lost its headliners, though not to the war alone. Four of the first ten (Don McNeill, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Bitsy Grant) are in the service; three (Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Wayne Sabin) turned pro last winter; and third-ranking Frank Parker, who-with Riggs and Kovacs out of the way-might at last have won the National title, is unwilling to leave his Hollywood...