Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pancho Gonzales took his first pro beating without a whimper. In the dressing-room later, he said: "There are no excuses. The light didn't bother me ... I wasn't nervous. I wasn't scared by the crowd. I wasn't thinking about the money either. Kramer held his service and I couldn't get my first ball in, so I lost. That's all, I lost...
...mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends are in jail over there...
Mestrovic, who now teaches at Syracuse University, added that the Yugoslav ambassador also had been urging him to return, if only for a visit. "He said that if I wished I could go incognito. But I will go to Belgrade incognito only when Tito goes to Moscow incognito...
...mass appreciation. At week's end, visitors were packing into his museum at a faster rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...
...said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."-Genesis...