Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Cowles, of 2313 Park Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...
That meant that Pancho no longer got the benefits of specialized coaching, got no expense money and no invitations to the best tournaments. Being taboo at the swank Los Angeles Tennis Club, he drifted over to the public park courts. Just the opposite of Pancho was Herbie Flam: he was hardworking, well-behaved and a model Jones boy. Under Jones's careful handling, Herbie Flam twice became national junior champion. Last week lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Pancho Gonzales wangled an invitation to play in the Southern California Championships and soon came face to face with Herbie Flam...
Nervous Guppies. Neighbors being what they are, the White siren is worked most of the time in the ultrasonic range. The average man cannot hear sounds above 14,000 cycles. Women are receptive to slightly higher pitches. White cites one exceptional woman, "a nervous, Park Avenue type," who can hear sounds in the neighborhood of 24,000 cycles. So can canaries. If annoyed with ultrasonic heckling, canaries turn their heads to an angle of least annoyance...
Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted...
...Hotel, a seedy symbol of the Mauve Decade, finally closed its doors. J. P. Morgan Sr. used to sip coffee in the Murray Hill's lobby; Mark Twain often used its decorous billiard room. Now its eight stories of brownstone will be torn down. In its place (on Park Avenue a block south of Grand Central) will go a 30-story office building...