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...Tennis Genius." Making a comeback, Tilden won the U.S. title in 1929, the Wimbledon in 1930, and then, at 38, turned pro. He beat the pros of his day: Vinnie Richards, Karel Kozeluh, Bruce Barnes. At 47, in 1940, Big Bill was still touring, and was still good enough to come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon...
...Westbury, N.Y., Memphis Dentist Cary Middlecoff started off with a respectable 70, shot a 6-under-par 64 for a course record, then ran off the next three rounds 66-67-66, to win the Palm Beach invitation golf tournament from 15 of the world's top pros...
...story taken from Oscar Wilde's "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is the best by far. Its success is due to a good plot, some humor in the script, and the presence of pros like Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Mitchell, and C. Aubrey Smith. The brief scene in which the latter extolls the beauty of death while Robinson decides to murder him is a delightful mixture of the macabre and the amusing. But even Robinson, as a man compelled to realize the prophecy of a palmist who sees murder in his hand, gets tiresome in interminable chats with his inner...
...opening meeting of the "general assembly" Saturday morning in PBH, three speakers including the national chairman of the Collegiate Council for the U.N., will introduce delegates to their weekend agenda. Following the keynote addresses, delegates will split in four committees to debate the pros and cons of French colonialism, unification of Germany, the integrity of the U.N. Secretariat as an international civil service, and North Korean truce proposals...
...Women's Amateur championship with a hip-swinging hula that brought frowns of disapproval from the staid U.S.G.A. This year, playing for pro pay, Jackie has restrained her hulas, but her booming 240-yd. tee shots have taken the play-and some of the pay-from such old pros as Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg...