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...Cooper was like Hewitt in the sense that his game lacked weapons but he wouldn't go away. "I made a point of being really fit," he says. "I got a bit of ribbing from a few of the players for over-training. Frank Sedgman was my idol, and Sedg did a lot of gym work. He was pretty scrawny as a lad and built himself up into a strong physical specimen. So I sort of did what he did." Though his name doesn't resonate today like those of some of his contemporaries, Cooper for a time was king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Courtly Player | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...final state of one-upness which counts; and Losemanship shows how this can be achieved . . . Savitt was beaten by Sedg-man. Mr. Shields should have drawn attention to the inexplicable speed of this phenomenon (58 minutes) . . . Surely the only explanation of the collapse of the one living exponent of the Tilden backhand must have been due (Shields should have said) to the "unfortunate atmosphere" and the "definite tension." These of course were fostered by the typical non-playing criticism, from the stands, of non-playing Captain Shields, who complained of the non-giving of a footfault against Seixas . . . To make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1952 | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...East and West will make Columbia's summer school, beginning July 5 and lasting six weeks, a university of universities in the fullest sense of the word. American authors, playwrights, poets, and editors will also contribute their share of knowledge to Columbia's educational clearing house. Ellery Sedg-wick '94, an overseer of the University and editor of the Atlantic Monthly; William Allen White, Kansas editor who spoke at the Union in January; Augustus Thomas, playwright, Robert Frost, Amherst poet; and Paul Elmore More, Princeton author will be included...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA SUMMER SCHOOL TO OFFER A THOUSAND COURSES | 4/2/1921 | See Source »

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