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Unfriendly Rivalry. One of the final witnesses to come before the Security committee was the New York Herald Tribune's Military and Aviation Editor Ansel Talbert. He was called to testify on whether Timesman Grutzner had helped the enemy by prematurely writing a story about the first F-86 Sabre jets in action in Korea five years ago. Talbert told how he, Grutzner and other reporters had been told of the Sabre jets' first victory over the MIGs in North Korea, but had been directed by the Fifth Air Force not to release the news. Talbert said that...
Encouraged by Trabert's win, Seixas strode confidently forth to take on Australia's Ken Rosewall, who had beaten him eight times in the last two years. For weeks U.S. Captain Bill Talbert had been showing Seixas, not an overpowering hitter, how to win points off Rosewall's relatively weak forehand. Seixas learned that lesson well. His net play was as good as ever...
...performer. (Only last month at Forest Hills, a loud American crowd bothered him so much that he blew right out of the national championships.) Solemnly, the committee announced that, for all their faults, Tony and Vic are the best around. With Inter collegiate Champion Ham Richardson and Captain Billy Talbert, they will be sent on one more trip to Australia in one more effort to bring home the Davis...
...Manhattan, the Davis Cup selection committee named the players who will go to Australia for the interzone final and the challenge round. In one more effort to bring home the cup, the U.S. will send the same team that failed to do the job last winter: Captain William F. Talbert, U.S. Champion Vic Seixas, former U.S. champion Tony Trabert and Intercollegiate Champion Ham Richardson...
...with it"), "You Should Know" ("If you are going to buy a puppy"), "Yesterday" ("When a pretty filly, Goldsmith Maid, was the belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd Schulberg...