Word: talbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a pathological optimist would have wagered a wooden nickel on U.S. chances to bring home the Davis Cup. The best men U.S. Captain Bill Talbert could muster for the challenge round against Australia were young (22) Barry MacKay, U.S. intercollegiate champion, and Old (34) Master Vic Seixas, who left his best tennis on the center court at Forest Hills back in 1954. Aussie Captain Harry Hopman made the most of a bountiful supply of stars by calling on 22-year-old Mai Anderson, proud owner of the U.S. championship, and Ashley Cooper, another youngster (21) with years of experience...
...While Australia's Ashley Cooper was whipping his countryman, Neale Fraser, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, for the New South Wales singles championship, touring U.S. tennists made the most of their unexpected freedom. All had long since been eliminated from the tournament, so Davis Cup Captain Bill Talbert turned his men to for some intensive practice. There is only one short month to go before they try to recapture the big silver punch bowl -too little time for Bill Talbert's talent-starved team...
...that the public, in return for putting up 93% of the venture's cash, will get 1,250,000 shares at $1.50 apiece-only 44% of stock outstanding. With Halley on the new company's seven-member board: Security Banknote Co.'s Vice President William F. Talbert, better known to sports fans as the nonplaying captain of the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team...
...backhand and spectacular lobs, lost in four sets, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-2. For Seixas, it was the sad climax to a summer's uneven performance; at 32, he was just not steady-handed and agile enough to win. Said U.S. Captain Bill Talbert: "You add eight months [since Sydney] to 32 years, and you've got to come up with less...
...regular staff of editors also rounded up a roster of expert contributors, ranging from Herbert Warren Wind in golf and Davis Cup Captain William F. Talbert in tennis to such talented amateurs as Nobelman William Faulkner. The Faulkner story of the Kentucky Derby so impressed Bing Crosby that The Groaner read it in three installments on his radio show...