Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amateur Tennis Ace Arthur Ashe. Perhaps that explains why Ashe took the court recently for exhibition matches in Manhattan's Vanderbilt Tennis and Athletic Club wearing snazzy powder-blue shorts and shirt. All the other players were showing colors too-either "Match Blue," like Ashe, or "Trophy Yellow." What's more, the new Technicolor togs, manufactured by Catalina Martin, bore the endorsement: "Selected by the U.S.L.T.A. for the U.S. Davis Cup Team...
Meanwhile, Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche, together with six other members of Dave Dixon's professional World Championship Tennis Inc., began a six-month tour in Kansas City, Mo., last week garbed in gaudy green, yellow, blue and red shirts, some with socks to match. "Color is good and correct for tennis," insists Dixon. "In fact, today white looks washed out and bush league." Surprisingly, the argument is gaining support, even in traditional circles. Says Walter Elcock, president of Brookline's Longwood Cricket Club, where players have worn only whites since 1877: "So many changes are being...
...appearances are deceiving. Accustomed since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) to a seemingly endless blossoming of new theatrical talent, Londoners now are suffering through a period of drought. According to TIME Correspondent Horace Judson, the crackle of sere and yellow revivals is in the air. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is still running in what is advertised as its "16th mind-boggling year." Among the musicals in town are a revival of The Boy Friend (1953) and an exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during...
...campaign song opened the convention--"Onward with Model Cities Go/Onward we go to meet the foe..."Residents voted by waving yellow cards, often while munching free sandwiches and shepherding restless children...
...Harvard student interested in draft information, after trying the yellow pages without success, finally resorted to telephone information...