Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Groza is a wealthy egomaniac who considers himself the greatest tennis player since Tilden, the greatest lover since Casanova and the finest figure of a man since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...
Percentage Player. The John Lardners and their three children winter in Greenwich Village, summer on Fire Island, two hours away. A good drinking companion and quiet, deadpan humorist, Lardner is a cautious horse player, a brilliant poker player, and master of the "match game" at Jack Bleeck's newspaper saloon...
...apply. No bands turned out, no crowds gathered to watch his progress. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's John Chabot Smith: "Mr. Wallace's movements in Virginia had something of the eerie quality of an old-fashioned silent movie in a theater without a piano player...
...there wasn't any free stuff, and there wasn't much excitement. In 1944, the reformers committed an act of political cowardice. They ran Guitar Player Jimmy Davis for governor. Davis, who wanted to go to Hollywood, was a good candidate but a bad governor. He was just supposed to keep the seat warm until Sam Jones could come back...
Unperturbed, WAA's Larson curtly wired White to turn everything over to Kaiser-Frazer. Then Edgar Kaiser, Henry's son, dropped in at Republic to take over. Poker Player White felt like the Eastern tenderfoot who started to take in the pot on a royal flush, only to have a Western pro lay down a pair of deuces and announce that he had a Galoola Bird. The Westerner pointed to a sign on the wall...