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Last week, on the slippery boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, Tony started fast in one more try. His big serve skidding and hopping, his net game vastly improved and his temper in check, he breezed to the finals of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor singles championships. In the last round his Davis Cup teammate, Ham Richardson, 21, made him work for the title. But Tony, 24, was equal to the job. After losing the long first set, 11-13, Tony unwound, ran out the match...
...murmuring graceful commonplaces. Made from a Robin Maugham novel, Line on Ginger, the picture begins when a stockbroker (Jack Hawkins), home from an afternoon of golf, surprises a burglar (Michael Medwin) in his house. The man proves to be "Ginger" Edwards, a soldier the broker commanded in his regiment during World War II-and a good soldier he was. What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another of his old soldiers, looking for the fugitive, the decline and fall...
...daughter of an army officer. He was the Crown Prince of Rumania. Nevertheless, in the desperate and melodic tradition of Ruritania, Carol Hohenzollern and Jeanne ("Zizi") Lambrino met, loved, and decided to marry. Risking not only position but honor for the sake of his true love, Carol deserted the regiment that he was commanding on the Eastern front in World War I, bundled Zizi into a staff car, and eloped with her across the Russian border. In a Russian Orthodox church at Odessa they were married on Aug. 31, 1918. After the honeymoon, Carol's father, King Ferdinand, hauled...
...ailing, prepared to step down after four years on the job. His hand-picked successor: Dr. William S. Middleton, 65, former dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and military medico of long standing (he served on loan to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in World War I, as colonel in the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World...
...midst of Neuberger's speech, Mrs. George Malone, peppery wife of the Republican Senator from Nevada, rose from her chair, uttered a distinct boo, and flounced from the banquet hall. Afterward, she was scolded in the lobby by Perle Mesta, elder daughter of the Democratic regiment. Next day both ladies denied everything (she was only going to the ladies' room, explained Katie Malone), and Dick Neuberger, the man who wanted to be dignified, was the subject of caterwauling headlines across the nation...