Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded strange coming from Schroeder, a high-strung will-to-winner who frequently ate 4 a.m. breakfasts because he couldn't sleep the night before a big match. At 28, he decided he had conquered all the tennis worlds worth conquering. Before he won the British title at Wimbledon two months ago, he thought of turning pro; later he changed his mind, decided to stick to his amateur standing and his year-round job with a California refrigerator company-and relaxed...
...themselves. The men, who usually get the lion's share of attention from press and public, were playing elsewhere (at Newport, R.I.*). The galleries at Manchester were small, but those on hand had plenty to see. The net impression: the reign of the two current tennis queens, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough (26) and U.S. Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont (31), is seriously threatened for the first time in three years...
...Curvaceous Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 25, the most eye-filling thing in women's tennis since Britain's Kay Stammers Menzies retired. Since the memorable lace-pantie experiment at Wimbledon (TIME, July 4), Gussie has switched back to shorts, promises to bear down on her tennis, which she thinks has suffered from too much publicity...
...glad to see your balanced comments on Wimbledon [TIME, July 4] ... There has never been a grander set of Americans than those who came over this year-good sportsmen, good players and good lookers, and all great favorites of the crowd. Ted Schroeder won our hearts in one short fortnight, and Louise Brough's courage and Gussie's panties kept the female flag flying high...
...section of the press in both countries chose to fasten on the only exception, Bob Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...