Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, 26, excitable Ecuadorian tennist, whose two-handed technique made him the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles championship (1946); and Virginia Spencer Smith, 20, blonde Forest Hills, N.Y. tennis fan; in Manhattan...
Engaged. Robert Falkenburg, 21, rangy, seventh-ranking U.S. tennist, brother of Jinx; and Lourdes Marink-Veiga Machado, 19, bright-eyed Brazilian beauty; in Manhattan...
Diabetes was making U.S. Tennist Billy Talbert (see SPORT) a special sort of hero in Australia. Amazed that he had been taking daily insulin since he was ten, admiring Australians showered him with fan letters, flocked to watch him practice, wondered how he did it. He figured exercise was good for him (burned up the sugar). One time during a match he suffered an insulin reaction, popped a sweet into his mouth, went on playing...
King Gustaf of Sweden, history's most interminable tennist, finally had to give up. While prepping for a tournament, the 88-year-old monarch collapsed. His physician said that the royal heart had suffered a "certain weakening...
James Vail Converse, 53, sat in a Manhattan jail. He was there for contempt of court-he had ignored a summons for a debt of $149 he owed a hospital. Onetime playboy Jimmy, onetime horseman and tennist, onetime husband of Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt, Lady Furness-he was her first of two and she was the second of his five-waited for somebody to get up $100 to bail...