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...fierce 24-game fourth set. U.S. women did better: California's pesky 5-ft. 1-in. mite, Mimi Arnold, 19, startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson, 30. In the final, Althea efficiently walked over Britain's Angela Mortimer 8-6, 6-2. But nowhere was there a sign of that combustible quality that lights...
...Briggs Stadium, paid up to $27.50 a seat. They saw what they expected to see. Fleet-footed Pastor-whose only claim to the challenger's role was the fact that he once lasted ten rounds against Louis-did the turkey trot, Lindy hop, chassé and Suzi-Q to keep out of the champion's waltzing range. Fleet-fisted Louis toppled the challenger every time he caught up: four times in the first round, once in the second and finally in the eleventh flush on the chin for a fare-thee-well...
...steps, as in a Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through...