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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worldwide Calveri | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Born. To Katherine ("Kay") Stammers, 29, pretty British tennist, and Welsh Guards Lieut. Michael Menzies, wealthy peacetime stock broker: a daughter; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tomorrow's Tennis | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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