Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennist Alice Marble quit her $1-a-year body-building job with OCD, explained that since Pearl Harbor it had grown from a part-time to a "more than fulltime" job, had kept her from earning the living she has to make...
Married. Cynthia Vansittart, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Baron Vansittart; and Frederick C. Whitman, son of the late Davis Cup Tennist Malcolm D. Whitman; in San Francisco...
Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds...
Clowning Frank Kovacs: his first match as a professional tennist; defeating Don Budge, onetime nonpareil; 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; before a crowd of 11,000; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with...
Died. Elsie Moore Torlonia, 52, Brooklyn-born hardware heiress who married and divorced the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; in Manhattan. Her son, Prince Allesandro, married the Infanta Beatriz, daughter of Alfonso XIII; her younger daughter, Donna Marina, is the wife of Tennist Francis X. Shields. Mrs. Torlonia dropped her title, regained her U.S. citizenship after her divorce...