Word: fabyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporize, pat back her volleys instead of smashing for the kill. Her booming serve gives her the basis of a sound, big game, and no woman playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more emphatic: "Althea improved...
...winsome classmate. After trying his hand in an ironworks after graduation from high school, young Friedman at last decided to work his way through agricultural college and become a farmer. Graduating close to the top of his class at Cornell, he was offered a job by one Colonel George Fabyan, a wealthy Chicago eccentric and dry-goods tycoon with a 500-acre estate near Geneva. "What do you do on your estate?" asked Friedman. "I raise hell," said the colonel...
...lots of abandoned express packages on the chance that they might contain something interesting, filling his house with furniture that hung on chains from the ceiling, and-from a special chair suspended from a huge tree before a great, open-air fireplace-delivering daily the hell he promised. Mrs. Fabyan contented herself with the relatively quieter companionship of a free-roving chimpanzee and a small private zoo of bears, wolves and coyotes...
...impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered the services of his entire crew, including Friedman. From then on for nearly two years, much of the Government's cryptological effort was located at the Fabyan farm. Said William Friedman of the change: "I was seduced from an honorable profession to one with a slight octor...
...Evelyn Fabyan's Bomber's Night, in which a man remarries after his wife is killed in the London blitz, then finds that his first wife has come back to haunt...