Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record that Francis Bacon was much of a tennis player, but most tennis players would agree with his estimate of the game. The best tennis player in the world, a 26-year-old named John Albert Kramer, should certainly not take exception to it-though he might want to add a few things. For instance, the kind of tennis he plays is about to be of some use to his country. And shortly thereafter, it might be turned to more immediate profit to himself...
With the emissaries came south India's most famous player of the nagasaram, a special kind of Indian flute. Like other sannyasis, who abstain from hair-cutting and hair-combing, the two emissaries wore their long hair properly matted and wound round their heads. Their naked chests and foreheads were streaked with sacred ash, blessed by Sri Amblavana. In an ancient Ford, the evening of Aug. 14, they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
...prospect had Mexican Movie Actress Maria Felix biting her nails. She was afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint...
...baseball's No. 1 cap-straightener and head-rubber at the plate, Harry is known as "Harry the Hat" (not to be confused with the Cards' "Harry the Cat" Brecheen). He thinks his hitting this year is due partly to being an everyday player, partly to some advice about his batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry...