Word: becker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experience provided the five point margin us Dave Jordan (137) got his pin in 8:08, after missing it several times, and Bob Gilmor (167) decision Harold Becker, 7 to 2. Bob Wynne (unlimited) beat Tony Vertin 8 to 0, and Captain Ken Culbert (177) pinned Mike Brenner...
Well, Messrs. Becker and Miller have backed a pleasant, untaxing and unexciting evening called Tonight in Samarkand. It just can't help keeping one moderately entranced because it is about Fate, has some clever lines, good performances, handsome or beautiful (or just competent) players and highly imaginative and mobile sets...
...Kooyong Stadium, Australia's Ken Rosewall beat Seixas in the final of the Victorian Tournament, but that did not take the spotlight off floundering Lew Hoad (who had just turned 20 last fortnight). Hoad had barely stumbled through his opening match with Britain's young (20) Roger Becker. Then, in a match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five-set victory. During the second and third sets, which he kicked away, Hoad heard a rare sound-an Australian crowd booing an Australian player. Said he later: "I just didn't give...
...victims of glaucoma, Dr. Bernard Becker of St. Louis' Washington University reported two hopeful developments: 1) more accurate methods of measuring pressure inside the eyeball, so that the disease can be detected earlier, and 2) an experimental drug which drastically lowers the pressure...
...good, fast script by Arnold Becker hits only the biggest bumps on the Globetrotters' road to glory: beginning with the team's hobo start in the late '20s, when a few Negro boys tooled through the Midwest in a fourth-hand Pierce Arrow, playing pickup games, winner take all, in barns and dry swimming pools, and ending when the Trotters won a "World Professional Championship Tournament" at Chicago...