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...region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-protégés: Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder...
...Jones has the permanent gratitude of most of his former protégés. Before Jack Kramer and his wife sailed for Wimbledon this spring, they wired him: "We want you to know that we realize you have done this for us." Ex-Jones boys who become champions are usually glad to reciprocate by teaching old tricks to his new prospects. Jones, who has seen six national amateur champions roll off his production line, now has one all picked out for 1950: Herbie Flam...
Sakamoto's ditch-wrigglers did all right. Led by the Nisei NaKama brothers, they won the A.A.U. outdoor team championships in 1939 and 1940. Sakamoto was gunning for the 1940 Olympics, but they were called off. In 1941, before war dispersed them, Sakamoto's protégés won their third outdoor A.A.U. title; and one of them, Bill Smith, son of a Honolulu cop, broke most of the world's records from 200 to 800 meters...
...latest protégé-playmate is little, dark-haired Don Perone, former New England featherweight champ, who has lived in Iturbi's Beverly Hills mansion for six months. Iturbi employs him as coffee-pourer and sparring partner, and rewards him with singing lessons. Although Perone was wounded at Salerno by a bayonet that pierced his stomach, Amateur Boxer Iturbi has persuaded Perone to return to the ring. Perone will make the great sacrifice next month against a local fighter selected by Iturbi. He would much rather sing...
...Czechs, whose love for American jazz is echoed from every kavarna (coffee house) in Prague, applauded compositions by Aaron Copland, William Schuman and Samuel Barber, but gave the loudest ovation to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with President Truman's protégé-pianist, Eugene List, as soloist (TIME, April 22). Bernstein led the orchestra through a rousing performance of his own apocalyptic Jeremiah Symphony. After concerts, Bernstein played the piano for Czech Philharmonic's conductor Rafael Kubelik and his violinist wife, updating them on the latest versions of Honky-Tonk Train and Empty...