Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lionel Bryer, research fellow in Dental Science from Bloemfontein, South Africa, has been named "most valuable player of the year" by the executive board of the Rugby Club. The "most conscientious" award was shared by Mizra T. A. Baig '57, Terence S. Turner '57, and Arthur W. Ticknor...
...These reports are plain exaggerations. You'd think we were operating a league where a player can't even say hello to his coach," he said...
Typical of this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...
Borgnine, married and the father of a three-year-old daughter, got his first movie job in Louis de Rochemont's The Whistle at Eaton Falls, after a World War II hitch in the Navy, a stint as scene shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent...
...their final match in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, Haegler and Harris displayed fine teamwork as they kept their Williams opponents, Wally Jensen and Bill Cullen, on the defensive. "Harris's serve was tremendous," praised Williams tennis coach Charlie Chaffee, "and Haegler is about the finest player I've ever seen in doubles...