Word: tennistar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
...golfer named Dwight Eisenhower invited 32 sports leaders to come to the White House this week and help him plan how to lure more young Americans into competitive sports. Among those on the guest list: Golfer Bobby Jones, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress...
...first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennistar at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponent's throat...
...Great tennis players have one indefinable quality in common," said U.S. Tennistar Bill Talbert. "I call it 'x.' I haven't got it myself. But Budge had it. Vines had it. And so did Perry and the other greats." Whatever "x" is, the quality was sadly lacking at Wimbledon last week, as the All-England tennis championships got under...