Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving Scarritt College's Wightman Chapel, where they received communion from white and from Negro clergymen, the pastors were not all optimistic about the jobs they faced. A North Carolina preacher summed up the conference for the 300 who came and for the 4,000 who did not: "I always felt there were many others in the South that felt as I did, but I was never sure. Now I know that there are at least 299 others...
...paced by the U.S.'s Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, U.S., Wimbledon and Australian tennis champion, a U.S. team successfully defended the Wightman Cup for the 17th straight time since 1930 (7-0). from a quartet of British girls...
...girls, became the youngest U.S. girls' champion. Last year she kept her crown-and ranked tenth among the big girls in the women's division. This spring Teach decided that more junior competition would simply dull Maureen's game, coached her to a berth on the Wightman Cup team which beat Britain...
...women's team, over Britain's best women tennis players, to take the Wightman Cup for the 15th time in a row, six matches to one ; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. In the fourth and clinching match, Britain's Kay Tuckey was trounced, 6-1, 6-3, by 16-year-old Maureen Connolly of San Diego, the youngest U.S. Cup team member in history...
...varsity 'A' summary: Foster (H) defeated Kaese, 3-0; Pendergast (UBC) defeated Clark, 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Wightman, 3-2; Ufford (H) defeated Tompkins, 3-2; Livingston (UBC) defeated Bacon...