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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...
...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...