Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wimbledon's courts were strewn with upsets in the 69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders...
...teetotalling Nehru. This time the technique was birds and flowers, and the scene was the more easily stage-managed environs of Moscow. What did the Kremlin gang want from Nehru, who as a neutralist is convinced that his world stature depends on refusing to become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue, nor am I going to intervene in any issues." But it would have taken a man less vain than Nehru to resist the Soviet welcome, the grandest given...
...especially interested in your May 23 review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of the Metamorphoses to see that Mr. Humphries is the son of a onetime player for the New York Giants. Though Ovid might have been a fan too, I suspected some prejudice on the translator's part when I read his story of Tiresias...
Married. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of a harmonica band ("Harmonica Rascals"), turned Paris restaurateur; and Lucille Watson-Little, 30, former costume designer for the Ringling Bros. Circus; both for the second time (her marriage to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor was annulled); in Méreville, France...
...physics professor in 1930 and later refined by Engineer-Composer Oskar Sala. is a complicated monster operated by pressing the fingers on two strings through which runs a weak electric current. By shifting his fingers along the strings much like a violinist and by working switches and pedals, the player can-at least theoretically-produce notes and pre-set chords of every imaginable color, frequency and strength. But so far the Mixturtrautonium can be played only by Engineer Sala...