Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation Bible schools, a 15-minute Sunday night radio program over Morgantown's station WAJR. The Smiths established a 3,500-volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ...
Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
...cheng (a 16-stringed zither) that he played was as old as China's Great Wall. In Manhattan's China House last week, a Yale student named Liang Tsai-ping played centuries-old music on a ku-cheng that had come down to him through three generations. His selections (from long-forgotten composers)-Flowers on the Variegated Brocade, Winter Birds Sporting over the Stream-were no more difficult to tell apart than Debussy's impressions...
...nearly twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork...