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...sometimes ingenious portmanteau descriptives. Dinah Shore was once referred to as a "scorch singer," Silent Film Comic Harry Langdon as a "deadpantomimer," and Mickey Rooney as a "Hardy family perennial." No longer in use are the TIME-coined neologisms that once peppered the section, such as "socialite," "tennist" (tennis player) and the myriad variations on "cinemactor/tress," such as "cinecomedienne," "cinemoppet" and "cinemingenue...
...today win the Wightman Cup." But one match the Times was ready to concede to the U.S. was between World Champion Althea Gibson and a strapping, 17-year-old blonde named Christine Truman. Christine had got the British team off to a promising start by beating second-ranking U.S. Tennist Dorothy Knode, but did not seem in the same class with Althea. "To expect Miss Truman to defeat Miss Gibson," said the Times sadly, "would be to expect anarchy...
...with crude wooden paddles on the pavements of New York. In 1950, when she was invited to play in the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills, she was leading Former Champion Louise Brough in the second round when a thunderstorm washed out the match. Next day Althea collapsed before seasoned Tennist Brough. From that match until last week, no one really knew if Althea had the drive to match her physical talents; since becoming a name player in 1950, she had won more than a dozen tournaments, but only one major one (the French singles in 1956). In subsequent years...
...apprentice, but his heart was still at the fronton. French Tennis Champion Jean ("The Bounding Basque") Borotra, a fine pelotari himself, took the youngster under his wing, brought him to Paris and taught him tennis. Urruty was soon good enough to go on an exhibition tour with French Tennist Henri Cochet...
...resolute entrant in his state's championship tennis tournament, New Jersey's outdoorsy Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, unseeded, wielded his racket as if he meant it, wound up with politics still a more rewarding dish for him. Weekend Tennist Meyner, 46, was eliminated, in his first round, in straight sets...