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...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Three of the outstanding numbers are a gastronomic comment on amorous disillusionment, "Love is Like a Pickle in a Barrel," a modern love ballad, "Let's Agree to Disagree," and an original tango written and played on the accordion with the orchestra by tennist David S. Burt '40, entitled "La Camarisita" (The Cute Little Chambermaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtains Rise on "Give, Baby, Give" Tomorrow In First Public Showing | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Sidney Beardslee Wood Jr., 27, fourth-ranking U. S. amateur tennist, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Sidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Tennist Wayne Sabin of Portland, Ore.: the national indoor singles championship, in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory ; a hint of Tennist Sabin's Davis Cup aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...night series of professional matches last year. Budge backers were equally vociferous in proclaiming that their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge was at the top because he had never met any real opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Fault | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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