Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Story. In 1928, at Southampton, L.I., Anne was in her element. She wore a short white dress, drove a blue car with red wheels, went to all the parties, sang, danced, shivered at the thought of growing old, and struggled with the great problem of her life: should she marry Paul Craven...
...from King's Lynn on The Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
...ring of Southwark's grime within the cup. He was translated to the country Diocese of Winchester. In influence the Bishop of Winchester is second in the province of Canterbury. He becomes, automatically, Prelate of the Order of the Garter. In his diocese is the big port of Southampton, whose waterside slums, though less imperial than Portsea's, were still imposing...
Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
...Schroeder, 21-year-old Southern Californian: the Southampton Invitation Tennis Singles Tournament (this year a round robin); defeating lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood, onetime Wimbledon Champion, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; at The Meadow Club, Southampton, L.I. Next day Schroeder & Wood fought through four sets against Victor Seixas and Bill Talbert to capture the doubles...