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Where is the U.S. going to find its next great tennis star? Watching the play of a pink-faced, cowlicked 16-year-old last week, Davis Cup Selection Committee Chairman James H. Bishop thought he had found the answer. As Hamilton Farrar ("Ham") Richardson of Baton Rouge, La. went about winning the National Junior championship with one of the most stylish all-court games seen this year, Jim Bishop pronounced him "the best [tennis] prospect in a quarter of a century...
Drill the Forehand. Ham Richardson has been playing serious tennis for four years. He picked up a racket one day, while his older brother was taking a lesson from a Baton Rouge pro named Jim Bateman. Bateman took one look at the twelve-year-old's swing, declared him a natural. After that, Ham gave up baseball and settled down for a few tennis lessons himself. After five lessons, Bateman packed him off to Chicago to play in a "13-and-under" tournament; Ham was runnerup...
...denounced Russell as a supporter of the Fair Deal in Washington, and of the Long dynasty in Baton Rouge. "Longism" had already taxed the poor voter's cigarettes, beer and gasoline to set up a welfare program shot full of politics, he cried. Weren't the Longs paying for Russell's campaign out of a multimillion-dollar highway appropriation? Russell wasn't saying, but shrewdly baited Lafargue into opposing FEPC, in hopes of undercutting the prospective pro-Lafargue Negro vote in New Orleans...
This season the mastodonic Easter, who makes a bat look like a baton, has made American League pitchers dread his appearance at the plate. When asked what is the most difficult thing for him to do in baseball, Easter says simply: "Strike...
...than double the price of six months ago. But the U.S. acted swiftly to guarantee adequate stockpiles of synthetic rubber. At the urging of rubber manufacturers, the White House ordered back into production three of the Government's twelve idle wartime synthetic-rubber plants: a butyl plant at Baton Rouge, La., a butadine plant at Houston and the Port Neches, Texas, plant which makes general-purpose rubber. This would boost synthetic-rubber production by about 20% and bring total production to about 500,000 tons a year, enough to handle all civilian and military needs, barring global...