Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Si's 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...
Success stories like these set many desert newcomers shooting in all directions, wavering in a single day between buying a laundry and investing in a tungsten mine. Optimistic and energetic in a new land, they dream big dreams to match the big country. Those with capital look for investments and...
¶Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have...
Newport had taken no chances. The board of governors of the famed 75-year-old casino flatly refused to lease its grounds to the festival as it did in 1954; only an unseasonable dry spell that summer, they pointed out, prevented the tennis courts from being ruined by stomping feet...
"When he went, the power and the glory of the presidency went with him," wrote Calvin Coolidge of the death, at 16, of his namesake son. Young Calvin blistered his heel playing tennis on the White House courts, died of what was then called "blood poisoning" in July 1924. Last...