Word: tennistar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Rheingold of 1958, wandered onto the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Club hoping to pick up some pointers on the game. Last week it developed that Madelyn had not only improved her racket technique but had also picked up her teacher. Her fiancée: famed Tennistar Pancho Gonzales, 31, who will marry her as soon as his California divorce is final in December...
...seemed, the personable Ago Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most effectively last week...
Stashing away one racket for another, rangy Negro Tennistar Althea Gibson began work on her first Hollywood role: a slave who ladles Southern comfort to her mistress when the boys ride off in old pro Director John Ford's Civil Warmup, The Horse Soldiers...
...model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent the past few months husking poetry to each other in romantic Venetian settings, there has been no recent sign of Babs's sixth husband, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil be No. 7?."You're flattering me terribly," bubbled Heiress Hutton. "It's not true." But at week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen that he is definitely...
...after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion) Art Larsen, 31, in Castro Valley, Calif., partially paralyzed and blind in one eye after a motor scooter accident last month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet...