Word: pong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month of his twelfth French indoor title, Borotra at 48 is still one of the four or five top indoor players in Europe. Last week in Manhattan-third stop in his current U.S. exhibition tour*-his free-swinging volleys and unorthodox backhand (which looks much like a ping-pong shot) were not in top form, but his ebullient disposition was (chasing a drive, he landed in a spectator's lap, apologized with a winning Gallic bow). Frank Shields's big service was too big for Borotra, just as it had been in the Wimbledon semi-finals...
...president, a veteran actor, carried three roles in the recent HDC double presentation of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Ping-Pong Players...
...Allegretti would deserve a medal for endurance alone if he did not have other qualifications. After what must have been a trying ten minutes in "The Ping-Pong Players"--a sad sort of Little Theater Saroyan potboiler that could better have been left home--Allegretti took two widely divergent roles in the Odets, turning in a particularly good performance...
...Waiting for Lefty," the controversial drama by Clifford Odets suppressed in Boston 12 years ago, and "The Ping Pong Players," by William Saroyan, will open the Harvard Dramatic Club's 1947 winter season at 8:30 o'clock tonight at Sanders Theater...
...Ping Pong Players," a light love story written by Saroyan to illustrate the lengths to which people are driven by boredom, will be the HDC's curtain raiser. Allegretti and Miss Frances Coombs, Radcliffe '48, who portray the two main characters in the play, will engage in a ping pong game all through the dialogue. The HDC announced on Tuesday that eight winners of the PBH ping pong tournament have been given tickets to see the play...