Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the travelers had taken their worst habits with them; they were playing unreliable, unpredictable tennis. Far off form last week, Vic Seixas, the new U.S. champion, was knocked out in the quarter finals of Mexico City's Pan-American tournament. (The week before, Seixas had been beaten by Mexico's Gustavo Palafox in Davis Cup competition.) Temperamental Art Larsen let Mexican officiating get under his skin, lost out in the semifinals. Only Tony Trabert held his own against the mediocre competition, and at week's end he won the title...
...Davis Cup selection committee tried to forget that he, too, is a thin-skinned performer. (Only last month at Forest Hills, a loud American crowd bothered him so much that he blew right out of the national championships.) Solemnly, the committee announced that, for all their faults, Tony and Vic are the best around. With Inter collegiate Champion Ham Richardson and Captain Billy Talbert, they will be sent on one more trip to Australia in one more effort to bring home the Davis...
...selection committee named the players who will go to Australia for the interzone final and the challenge round. In one more effort to bring home the cup, the U.S. will send the same team that failed to do the job last winter: Captain William F. Talbert, U.S. Champion Vic Seixas, former U.S. champion Tony Trabert and Intercollegiate Champion Ham Richardson...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare) remains, even for the world's most famed producers of Shakespeare, something of a problem child. The Old Vic's version is neither Shakespearean in essence nor artistic as a whole. But on its own terms there is something to be said for a good deal of it-to be said, at moments, with even such words as "lovely" and "fairylike...
Ultimately the worst defect of the Old Vic production is that by using an almost uncut text it makes matters too sluggish and protracted for a musical spectacle (while so much dancing and music are fatal to any true unfolding of the play). There is thus no harmonized effect, only a medley of impressions; and along with much that is genuinely charming about equally much that is unmercifully dull...