Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Learn in Asia. Calvert methods are a mixture of many traditions. Earnest, friendly Headmaster Edward Woodman Brown (Princeton '23) is no "progressive" educator. A tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated...
Born. To Katherine ("Kay") Stammers, 29, pretty British tennist, and Welsh Guards Lieut. Michael Menzies, wealthy peacetime stock broker: a daughter; in London...
...would end today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors...
Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, Davis Cup tennist turned Buchmanite, was one of 15 Moral Rearmorers who lost appeals from 1-A classifications in Manhattan. They had argued that their moral rearming was more important to the war than military service...
...morale-engineers one was Norwegian, one a Dane, one a Canadian, the rest Englishmen out of reach of their own nation's draft laws. Among them: Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin. Last summer they were classified 1-A. They were facing induction in November when Brigadier General Ames T. Brown, New York Selective Service director, ordered the cases reopened after an MRA leader approached him with an introduction from Representative James W. Wadsworth of New York, co-author of Selective Service...