Word: phippses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One day last week in Manhattan, Pierre stepped briskly into Park Avenue's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club. Though he is the world's champ, he is also the club's court tennis pro, which puts him in the class of hired help. (Court tennis is a game...
When the match began, Phipps spun his serve along the cowshed roof. The ball (about as hard as a baseball with a tennis-ball covering) skidded into a corner and Pierre scooped it out with an underhand chop stroke.
Easy Crown. Phipps had been practicing hard for this match. Though a member of the Racquet Club himself, Phipps couldn't very well enlist the services of Pierre, the club pro. But he had hired Bill ("Blondy") Standing, who was John Hay Whitney's private pro, and practiced...
Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England.
Magna cum Laude: Wayland Colelman Griffith, William Edward Keller, Charles Thomas Noonan, Deniel Perking Smith Paul, Thomas Erwin Phipps, Jr., and Guillermo Cornelio Sanchez.