Word: californians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Show had neither the old cosmopolitan cast of Europeans and Australians nor the drawing card of a champion (last year's No. 1, Bobby Riggs, turned professional this year). But as the week went on, the galleries began to see that at least one South American and one Californian were playing for keeps...
...Schroeder, 21-year-old Southern Californian: the Southampton Invitation Tennis Singles Tournament (this year a round robin); defeating lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood, onetime Wimbledon Champion, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; at The Meadow Club, Southampton, L.I. Next day Schroeder & Wood fought through four sets against Victor Seixas and Bill Talbert to capture the doubles...
Light, airy, cheap (under $7,500), the houses in the museum's exhibition were pleasantly unconventional, individual, beautifully suited to their California settings. Walls and sliding partitions of transparent glass catered to the Californian's desire to spend half his life out of doors and made adjacent woods and gardens an intimate part of the interior decoration. Built to cling to steep slopes, many of the houses stepped gracefully down terraced levels, with front entrances and garages on their top floors...
...Budge Patty, another Hollywoodian, won the title after a titanic struggle with Philadelphia's Victor Seixas, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 10-8. It was the ninth year in a row (starting with Don Budge in 1933) that the Junior crown had gone to a Californian...
Pretty Pauline Betz, like Dodo Bundy, is a sun-kissed Californian. Daughter of a physical-education teacher, she learned her tennis in Los Angeles' public parks. Southern California's pride in the Misses Betz and Bundy was mixed with chagrin. For both of them had deserted California, enrolled as students at Florida's Rollins College...