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Your explanation of the pronunciation of Jadwiga's surname [TIME, July 12] will be o.k. everywhere except in Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo and a few other cities which have many Polish people. There is a definite "n" sound in it. The correct pronunciation is YENDZHAYOVSKA...
...singles championship went not to a dark horse but to what the horse world calls a sleeper, i.e., one whose victory comes as a great surprise to all save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more than her rotund and equally famed, tennis-playing father...
...only outcome capable of confounding the Forest Hills authorities more than an all-foreign final was to have Anita Lizana beat touted Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, a Warsaw typist whose powerful forehand had been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after...
...singles Defending Champion Alice Marble faced a domestic field headed by Helen Jacobs, whom she rudely upset last year. But she too was expected to find her chief difficulty with the foreign field, most notably with Chile's Anita Lizana and Poland's 154-lb. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, who has met Champion Marble five times this year and beaten her four...
...Pigeon-toed Strongwoman Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Poland's No. 1 woman tennist: the singles championship of the Maidstone Invitation Tournament, second major preliminary to next month's national championships, in her second week of competition on U. S. courts; defeating Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, U. S. No. 3, in the final, 6-2, 6-3; at East Hampton...