Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never properly promoted, never popular enough to be a national sport, U.S. amateur tennis remains a subsidized pastime, the responsibility of the nation's country and tennis clubs. A tournament traveler needs more than a smooth supply of shots; he must also get along with the station-wagon set. "You don't have to worry about my boys," Coach Kramer told the U.S.L.T.A. "They dress right, act right and talk right." Tennis fans were happy to hear that the boys play well...
...reason why cross-country should be in opposition to other major sports. Track and swimming, cross-country's cousins, both have realized this and award five and sometimes ten points to the winner, and one point to the last man. Cross-country should get on the band wagon--it's the thing to do. It would save the Traveler a lot of grief...
...Arthur Koestler novel. To Colonels Rogelio Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg fell the duty of directing the final, senseless reign of terror when the anti-Communist revolution last June was toppling their boss, President Jacobo Arbenz. Upon Arbenz' fall, Cruz Wer and Rosenberg escaped in a station wagon to Mexico, first of the regime's big shots to run for safety...
Ambitious Undertaking. In Merced, Calif., a thief stole a station wagon parked behind the Ivers & Alcorn mortuary, abandoned it hurriedly upon discovering that the large canvas in the back covered a corpse...
...doctor agrees to treat the man every midnight. All at once the analyst does a rushing (or is it Russian?) business at his office. After 278 pages of analytic questions and seductively couched replies from female operators, the poor analyst is almost ready for the crazy wagon himself. Good nervous stuff to wake up a sleepy weekend. New York, incidentally, still stands firm at book...