Word: volleyings
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...Frank Sedgman over Fellow Australian Ken McGregor, a smash and volley battle, 6-3, 6-2, 12-14, 6-3, to keep his Newport Casino singles tennis crown; in Newport, R.I. Maureen Connolly, repeating her Wimbledon victory over Louise Brough, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, to become the Essex singles champion; in Manchester, Mass...
...month before their divorce case could reach the comparative dignity of the courts, Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm began throwing mudpie bulletins at one another in public.* Last week their latest volley of press releases gave Manhattan's joyful tabloids the best copy of the whole hot summer. Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper...
...compelled to chalk up part of their defeats to the heat. The heat made no difference to Killer Connolly. Cool and unperturbed, despite a painfully sore shoulder, she kept dancing her little baseline jig, running her rivals ragged with hard-hit placements, only occasionally coming to the net to volley...
Congress' immediate reaction to Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...
...House volley ball results were: Lowell 2, Winthrop 0; Eliot 2, Leverett 1; Kirkland 2, Dudley 0; and Dunster 2, Adams 0. Leverett, Kirkland, Eliot, and Dunster tied for first, with a resulting play-off tournament today...