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When U.S. Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert led his team to Australia this fall, he was feeling pretty chipper about U.S. chances. After all, he had the U.S. champion, Tony Trabert, 23, and the Wimbledon champion, Vic Seixas, 30-a nice blend of youth and experience. After his champions had been bounced out of a couple of Australian warmup tournaments, Captain Talbert stiffened his lip and switched to a "don't-count-us-out" attitude. But confident Aussie bookies decided they had seen enough, counted out the Americans as 3-1 underdogs in the Davis Cup finals with Australia...
Last week, to add to Talbert's woes just before the matches with Belgium, a Melbourne newspaper solemnly told its readers that the Americans were a champagne-guzzling bunch of happy-go-lucky nightclubbers who paid more attention to gin rummy than to tennis. Point by point, Talbert denied the charges, then posted an angry exhortation in the U.S. locker room: "Let's go, boys. Let's show...
Officials of the group announced last night the formation of an Independent caucus within the Athenaeum. Meeting Sunday in Phillips Brooks House, the Independents elected the following officers: Chairman, Robert Effros '54; vice-chairman, John Rodman 1L; and Charles Talbert '54, recording secretary...
...earned no reportable income. Last week Vic and Dolly Ann dropped in at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also on hand, amidst palm-shrouded splendor, for the first annual Caribe Hilton (Hotel) Invitation Tournament were creaky (39) but top-ranked Gardnar Mulloy, Art Larsen (No. 3) and Billy Talbert (No. 6). As usual, they came to play a little tennis and also just to play. Their daily regimen was elegantly simple: breakfast in bed or on private balconies, sunbathing on the cabana-fringed beach, lunch, a little tennis, more sunbathing, dining & dancing...
...Juan, Ambassador Seixas teamed up with Larsen to beat Mulloy and Talbert, capture the men's doubles title. Then Vic headed off for London again-via Florida, Texas, Rome, Paris and other continental points. Some distant day, when he finally finds his play "slipping," Vic plans to go to work in his father's Philadelphia wholesale plumbing and heating supply company...