Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third generation of Lutheran pastors in his family (his son is pastor of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn), Dr. Fry, 56, is a Yankee fan, an ardent Democrat, and a purposeful pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia...
...This business is no place for a golf player-it's only for the guy who gets to work at 7 in the morning, leaves at 7 at night, and takes half an hour for lunch. The years have finally caught up with us -you've got to give the customer everything but your blood...
...Atheist. Cozzens' father, a business executive with a Brooklyn typesetting-equipment firm, had other ideas about how his son should be spending his time. Says Cozzens: "My father was a proficient tennis player and a good swimmer. He used to say to me, 'You should be a man.' He looked at me with a certain disgust, and Mother would say, 'Oh, but think how intelligent he is!' He was a practical man. and he was bitterly disappointed in me. and would be today. He was an austere Episcopalian who knew his duty...
Says Althea: "After Forest Hills I'm gonna rest. But, barring illness, I don't see why I can't play till I'm 35. If I have any ambition, it's to be the best woman tennis player who ever lived...
...year before, a Manhattan dentist. Dr. Reginald Weir, was allowed to enter the Men's Indoor championship, became the first Negro player in a U.S.L.T.A. championship...