Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight times (TIME, Jan. 28). Her escort, a tennis pro named John Howard, slapped Cinemactress Anne Sterling-"just one of those unfortunate things," he said. She had slapped him first, said Howard. Actress Sterling said no-"I'd be awfully silly to hit a big man like John." Tennist Howard and Actress Barrymore turned up at Las Vegas together. "I'm on the wagon," said...
Trygve Lie, idle-hour moose-hunter and tennist, improved a rare idle hour with a doubles match at Forest Hills, L.I. U.N.'s burly Secretary General made a stout try (see cut), but the opposition carried more weight. Score over Lie & partner...
Married. Lieut. Hal Surface Jr., 31, prewar tennist of first-ten rank, lately back from three years' army duty in India; and Rita Virginia Foley, 27; both for the first time; in Brookline, Mass...
Fred Perry, 36-year-old ex-world champion tennist (amateur and pro), was sued for divorce by his second wife, who charged cruelty. (Cinemactress Helen Vinson had divorced him in 1940 after complaining that he made her attend all his tennis matches...
Divorced. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, youngest Wimbledon tennis champion in history (19 in 1931), ex-Davis Cup star, now co-owner (with Tennist Don Budge) of a swank Manhattan laundry; by Edith Betts Wood, 33, New York socialite; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Phoenix, Ariz...