Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...
...When she was done coiling into a figure-eight windup and uncoiling curves, change-ups and fastballs, Bertha Ragan, 35, had again showed she was the greatest pitcher in women's softball by throwing four shutouts (including one no-hitter) to lead her Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn, to their second successive championship on their home field in the 26th World Softball tournament...
...Mamma Gabor. Last week she recalled with gratitude how Meneghini once sent her $40, while Maria sent her nothing. Said Evangelia of her daughter: "Meneghini was a father and a mother to Maria. Now she no longer needs him. But Maria will never be happy; my soul says it. Women like Maria can never know real love...
...reach quite young what many people consider the dream life of America: success by my own efforts, a stream of dollars to spend, a penthouse in New York, forays to Hollywood, the companionship of pretty women, all before I was 24 ... There I was in the realms of gold . . . But even as I lived this conventional smart existence of inner show business, and dreamed the conventional dreams, it all seemed thin...
...head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore returns and returns...