Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their dismal showing in the Davis Cup challenge round, U.S. tennis players hardly figured to stand a chance in their own national championship. Australia's Lew Hoad, with his big, booming game, and Ken Rosewall, with his classic ground shots, looked too hot to handle. Ex-Champions Seixas...
National Tennis Championships (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC).
Istiqlal. In 1943, during the Casablanca conference, President Roosevelt invited Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef to join him for dinner. Whether or not Franklin Roosevelt ever made the remark, the report soon spread that he had told the Sultan: "France is finished. Take back your country. We will help." The...
In the sunlit horseshoe of the stadium at Forest Hills, Long Island, a roaring chorus of Waltzing Matilda rose from the north section of the stands. Some 300 Australians were cheering the return, after a brief eight-month stay in the U.S., of the Davis Cup to Australia. With some...
- The red-hot American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox...