Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson's own Dodger mates who first came round. One or two of his fellow Dodgers began to say "Hello" to him in the locker room. Jackie wrote to his high-school baseball coach: "It isn't too tough on me. I have played with white boys all my life. But they hadn't played with a Negro before, and it sure was rough on some of them." Soon he was invited to play cards on trips, but though he didn't like the deuces-wild type of poker the boys played, he joined...
...Pebble Beach, Calif., in the 47th U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, all the cheers were for 44-year-old Underdog Johnny Dawson. He had been politely invited not to play in the same tourney 18 years ago because he worked for a sporting-goods firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point...
...Hills, L.I., in the final of the National Singles Tennis Championship, the crowd favorite was Frank Parker, who usually annoys the gallery with his stony-faced skill and mechanical shots. He won the gallery's fancy by unexpectedly copping the first two sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score...
Writers are getting orders to double up on scenes-i.e., instead of having one scene in the living room and one in the bedroom, play both in the bedroom. Directors are beginning to rehearse scenes before shooting them...
Frieda (Rank; Universal-International), an English film, is very much in earnest about a subject worth talking about: the question of war guilt among rank-&-file Germans. Unfortunately, the movie hasn't much to recommend it except its earnestness. Most of it is far too obviously a stage play, and a rather elementary problem play at that...