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...excitement began building with the very first match. San Diego's petite Karen Hantze, 17, was within one game of upsetting Ann Haydon when she began over-hitting in her eagerness, eventually lost 2-6, 11-9, 6-1. Then Darlene Hard, a power-hitting ex-waitress from Montebello, Calif., increased the tension by coming from behind for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Britain's 6-ft. Christine Truman. When Darlene and Karen needed just 45 minutes to humiliate Ann Haydon and Angela Mortimer in the doubles, 6-0, 6-0, the U.S. seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Struggle at Wimbledon | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

Charge Account. In Minneapolis, Detective Wayne Leonard waited four hours on stake-out for a female burglary suspect to return to her apartment, finally gave up, hurried to a downtown restaurant for a dinner date with his wife, recognized the waitress as the suspect, ate his meal, paid the check and arrested the waitress before leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...Bloodied Log. Lillian Oetting had promised to telephone her husband that night. When she failed to call, George Oetting tried to reach her. Nobody at the lodge seemed to question the fact that the women's beds had not been occupied. "Sometimes," says a waitress, "women get together in another room and play bridge and talk all night." Next day Oetting again tried vainly to call his wife. Then he called the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Starved Rock | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...little later at a seaside diner, the same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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