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...George H. Malcolm, a wealthy Otis Elevator Co. executive. Durie grew up in Chicago's suburban Lake Forest, attended Virginia's Chatham Hall, was a member of the Chicago Junior League. Slim and attractive, she was popular at parties in the early '30s at the Racquet Club, the Service Club-and as a charity-fashion-show model...
Designed by the famed architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White (who also created the Morgan Library, the Racquet and University Clubs, and Washington Square Arch), Penn Station was finished...
Kramer's decision to quit was good business: he is busy building a plush racquet club in Rolling Hills, Calif., and his pro tour has lost its spectator appeal since the retirement of the former perennial professional World Champion Pancho Gonzales. But there was another motive, said Kramer: his love for the game of tennis. "I suddenly realized," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, "that my presence is actually retarding the development not only of pro tennis but of tennis as a whole." Today's amateurs, said Kramer, simply play bad tennis: the quality of the competition...
Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...
...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...