Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon in the summer of 1955, officials of the U.S.L.T.A. told Althea that the State Department had asked them to nominate some players to tour Southeast Asia; they wanted her to go. Althea hesitated ("I had to get on my knees to persuade her," says a friend), finally accepted. The troupe included Karol Fageros, a bouncing blonde as famous for her frilly panties as her fancy tennis, Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson and California's Bob Perry. India, Pakistan, Thailand, Burma -everywhere the tennists made friends for the U.S., and everywhere Althea was the acknowledged champion. Once or twice when...
...Asia. So Althea went out to the West Side Tennis Club in the summer of 1950 and made history by almost upsetting Louise Brough. She went home a loser, and spent the next few summers as an unspectacular but familiar figure at assorted tournaments around the U.S. and Europe. In 1953 she graduated from Florida A. & M. and got a job teaching health and physical education at Lincoln University (then restricted to Negroes) in Jefferson City, Mo. She coached the men's tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year...
Baby Sitting to Cad Kicking. The Sketch's Powell-play was a London summer phenomenon brought on by newspaper circulation managers' frantic efforts to keep their papers selling (the Daily Mail was offering a bus trip to Moscow...
Major Edgar Christopher Charles Elkmsl Powell's availability for trophy purposes is even more characteristic of Britain this summer: 18,000 ex-soldiers are looking for jobs as a result of massive manpower cuts in Britain's armed forces (TIME...
...principal characters. When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky young "struggle for breath and in every summer kiss they can detect the taste of quicklime...