Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spring Lake, N. J., canny Frankie Parker, U. S. No. 2, who dedicated this year's forehand to his wife, won the Spring Lake Invitation tournament for the seventh year in a row-drubbing Florida's Gardnar Mulloy...
This summer, profiting by last winter's invitation tour of the Orient, Kovacs is belatedly living up to the promise he showed two years ago. Last month he whipped Frankie Parker in straight sets in the Missouri Valley championship. Last fortnight, in Long Island's Nassau Bowl tournament, he trounced Gil Hunt, Joe Hunt and Elwood Cooke, three of America's top-rungers...
...Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, had won the U. S. indoor tennis championship two years ago, had trounced U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the final of the French hard-court championship at Paris last year, and last fortnight, at Chicago, had beaten Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker (top and second-ranking U. S. tennists) to win the National Clay Court championship...
...Charles S. Bolster, Frederick J. Bradlee, Millar Brainard, William B. Breed, Henry P. Briggs, Frederick W. Brune, Francis W. Capper, Boughton Cobb, Robert C. Cobb, Charles R. Codman, Kenneth J. Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John S. Fleek, Robert T. Gannett, Joseph Garland...
Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...