Word: ponged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition and two ventriloquists. Audiences, having the time of their fathers' lives, top it all off with some lusty community singing. Producer Grauman has given West Coast crowds the same kind of old time fun that Billy Rose has long since made profitable in the East...
...club is limited in only one way. They have a wonderful clubroom, equipped with radios, victories, bridge tables, ping-pong tables and a coke-machine, but they cannot get in touch with the other communication officer's wives who are not as yet club members. It was explained that there were so many of these wives housed in many different parts of Cambridge that it was hard to look them...
Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...
...rooms of the Varsity Club include recreation facilities such as ping-pong tables, magazines and newspapers. Living quarters are also available for the use of student members and graduates. The club thus serves as a social and recreational center for its members during their lifetime...
...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...