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Nancy Chaffee and Beverly Baker think they have been playing long enough in the shadow of the reigning queens of U.S. tennis, Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough. This week, with the queens away from Manhattan, the princesses played in the final of the National Indoor championship. Tennis fans got an eyeful, and perhaps a glimpse of a new queen...
Nancy Chaffee, 21, a merry bundle of bounce, tells people, "I'm a ham." Last fall at Forest Hills she was soundly defeated by Mrs. du Pont. Chastened but not discouraged, Nancy went home to Ventura, Calif, and set herself a practice schedule: 3½ hours a day, six days a week. At night, when she wasn't appearing on her thrice-weekly television show (in which she and Tommy Harmon, onetime Michigan football star, interview sport celebrities), Nancy pored over strategy diagrams with her father, a tennis pro. Says Nancy: "I used to overpower...
...strokes, delivered with the verve if not the skill of an Alice Marble, took the edge off Beverly's gambling game. In a match that was closer than the score indicated, Nancy won, 6-4, 6-4. Said she: "This is the year to bust up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly...
...Milan, Jeannette Altwegg of England, chunky European figure-skating champion, over French Champion Jacqueline du Bief, U.S. Champion Sonya Klopfer, Canadian Champion Suzanne Morrow and 23 others, for the world title. Not so nimble in the free skating, the English girl won because of her superlative skill in the stylized school figures. Men's champion (for the fourth time): Dick Button, Harvard junior, of Englewood, NJ. ¶ In Arcadia, Calif., Kentucky-bred Rough 'n Tumble, the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, the first of the important tests for Kentucky Derby prospects. By his handy victory (with Arcaro...
Paul Robeson and William E. Du Bois would certainly have offended a good many people if they had kept their speaking engagements here last week. It is to the credit of this University that once again it did not succumb to that disease of spinelessness so prevalent today...