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Word: tennist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven up his show, Promoter O'Brien selected the great doubles team of George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Three weeks ago Tennist Lott capitulated to Mr. O'Brien's cash proposal. Last week Tennist Stoefen, who with Lott scored the only U. S. point against Britain in the Davis Cup challenge round at Wimbledon last August, decided to turn his pastime into a profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pastime Into Profession | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Married. Charlotte Kelsey Dorrance, daughter of Campbell Soup Co.'s late, learned Founder-President Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who left some $115,000,000 in trust to his widow and five children; and William Coxe Wright, tennist; in Radnor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists to Forest Hills | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Down (Cont'd) | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...Kansas City. Dallas and Norfolk where a Mrs. Tom Hanes said she saw no reason for women to be "bundled up like eskimos." Even more enthusiastic about the story than any of its rivals, the New York American ran a four-column spread with pictures of Swimmer Eleanor Holm, Tennist Helen Jacobs and Golfer Bea Gottlieb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shorts: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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