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...Tennist, famed for her spicy on-court attire, who turned professional...
...Women's Championship almost had a form upset when Althea Gibson (TIME, July 17), first Negro ever to play in the Nationals, carried Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough to within one game of match before rain stopped their second-round contest. But next day, 22-year-old Tennist Gibson no longer had her touch or speed, and she went out of the tournament...
...Ambidextrous 19-year-old Beverly Baker of Santa Monica, Calif., who took a first set from Brough at Manchester. Freckle-faced, pug-nosed Tennist Baker changes her racket from hand to hand and strokes every shot on her forehand. She hits hard, but needs more experience, more change of pace. Most of her courtmates think she will be the champ some day-maybe soon. At 19, Beverly has plenty of time...
...successful attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...Tennist Bill Tilden turned dramatist with a play about a mental-case mother, a kidnaped child and a brother-sister love affair. Called New Shoes, it opened in Los Angeles. The Times pronounced it "malodorous, but. . . delicate enough and . . . well written...