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...women's division, Negro Star Althea Gibson (TIME, July 17) made her first appearance in a U.S.L.T.A. national outdoor tournament, lost in the quarterfinals to top-seeded Doris Hart, who went on to win the title...
...case in point was 22-year-old, South Carolina-born Althea Gibson, three times national Negro champion, who last March became the first Negro to reach the final round of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor championships (TIME, April 3). On a recent lecture tour, wrote Alice Marble, more people had asked her about Althea's admission to Forest Hills than about "Gussie's panties." So she had investigated...
...U.S.L.T.A. committee member, she steamed, had not said right out that Althea would not be accepted. But, he had said, she would have to make a strong showing in major eastern tournaments preceding the "big do at Forest Hills," and most of those tournaments were by invitation. Wrote indignant Miss Marble: "If she is not invited to participate in them, as my committeeman freely predicts, then she obviously will be unable to prove anything at all, and it will be the reluctant duty of the committee to reject her entry at Forest Hills...
...women's tournament, lanky, 22-year-old Althea Gibson became the first Negro ever to reach the finals in a national championship sponsored by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. Although she lost out next day, her performance made it possible that she would also become the first Negro ever to play in the nationals at Forest Hills this summer...
...loose all that energy she was storing up during the long run of "I Remember Mana." This is not to say she overacts. She makes the most of her opportunities, but not at the expense of her fellow players who prove, anyhow, that they can look out for themselves. Althea Murphy as Ellic Dunn, Robert Harris as Boss Mangan, and Michael Sivy as the burglar are especially good. Polly Rowles' Lady Utterwood gets into the right stride in the third...