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...game's as good as ever, maybe better," admitted scar-faced Tennistar Pancho Gonzales. "I'm O.K. on passing shots and return of serve. We go along neck and neck, each holding service. Then he wins." From Milwaukee to White Plains, N.Y. and on through Pittsfield and Springfield, Mass., it had been as simple as that. When his pro tour with Big Jake Kramer reached Washington, D.C. last week, Gonzales was hollow-eyed from loss of sleep and the humiliation of 17 defeats against three wins...
Puffing on his pipe, Tennistar Ted Schroeder turned a lazy eye on the grim and determined young men swatting tennis balls at each other on Forest Hills' geometrical array of grass courts. "Look at those guys," he said, nodding at his fellow competitors in the National Singles. "In another day they'll be so choked up with tension they won't be able to breathe. No more of that for me. There's no pressure on me, none...
...hear a real American red-hot momma, and I wasn't wrong. It was as good as being presented at court." San Franciscans flocked to their M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, gaped in perplexity at a visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin...
...Actress). Disengaging, she says to him: "What is your name?" With the ineptitude of a musical comedy without music, the scene shifts quickly to a Manhattan dress shoppe, to a Westchester Country club, to "the Conquistador Hotel in Baja California," which means Lower California. In Paris. Bing becomes a tennistar, in Westchester he and Miss Kirkland are bedded, in Mexico they are again thrown together. For some reason not clearly indicated, each has married someone else, probably from theatrical pique...