Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault...
...Sidney III never developed the father's obsession for the game. He was too interested in too many other things -hockey, baseball and an elaborate game of stickball he invented and played with all his father's zest. Two years ago, young Sid left Yale to spend the winter with his father in New York. "He was worried about his future in tennis because of some trouble he was having with his back," says the father. "His marks were down. And some of his depression came from his split home-his mother and I were divorced...
...other Yale tennis players were driving down to Miami to start the 1961 season. Their sta tion wagon plunged off the road outside Fayetteville, N.C. The crash killed Team Captain T. Craig Joyner and injured Stewart Ludlum Jr. Last week, after relays of doctors had worked for four days, Sidney Wood III died...
...Sidney B. Wood 3rd, a junior from Chestnut Hill and son of the one-time Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion, was injured when the students compact station wagon jumped over an embankment and crashed into a pavement below. He was listed as "out of danger" at Fayetteville, but will be hospitalized for 12 weeks...
Jazz is no newcomer to the U.S.S.R. It has just been on a long vacation. In 1925 pudgy New Orleans Saxophonist Sidney Bechet gave Moscow its first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died...