Word: australians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last 50 years much progress has been made. "Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California...
Harry Bridges, Australian-born West Coast longshore boss, flew into Reno from San Francisco last week with his companion and registered at the Mapes Hotel as "Mr. & Mrs. Harry Bridges"-prematurely, as it turned out. For one thing, it was too late in the day for even a quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
From the moment Jack Kramer arrived, Australians viewed him with mixed feelings. As coach of the U.S. Davis Cup squad, he was theoretically welcome. But as a promoter who has lured away top Australian stars for his professional tours, he was viewed with ill-concealed hostility...
...When the Australian press tired of chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS...
Died. Sir Hubert Wilkins, 70, Australian flying explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic, adviser to the U.S. military on cold weather survival, who was knighted by George V for his 1928 flight of 2,200 miles across the Arctic icecap, three years later navigated a submarine named the Nautilus beneath the icecap in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from...