Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 65, who preferred aspirin-sized pillboxes long before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...
Distinct Speech. With the hypnotized fascination of an outsider, O'Hara still writes about the Eastern establishment-gentry who can tell, from a snarled sentence heard in the night, not only that the speaker is Harvard, Racquet Club and drunk, but what brand of 20-year-old Scotch he has been drinking. The fascination has endured for years, and so has Hemingway's crack that someone should take up a collection and send O'Hara to Yale...
...only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet had come permanently unstrung...
Midway through the winter, coach Jack Barnaby's squash team played and surrounded one of the few double-headers in Crimson racquet sports history, with victories the same day over Penn and Princeton. This Spring Vacation his tennis varsity attempt an even more ambitious venture--a double schedule for the first and second six against various Southern colleges and other touring Northern teams...