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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swing into Sports (Mon. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont Television). Tennis specials. M.C.: Sarah Palfrey Cooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

With the enthusiasm of kids opening a lemonade stand, the tennis firm of Pauline Betz & Sarah Palfrey Cooke went into business. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, had lined up 34 dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the two women who had ruled U.S. amateur tennis for six years. But Pauline and Sarah decided to give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road Show | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...were Seelye Bixler, president of Colby College and last occupant of one of the two now-vacant Divinity School chairs; Ernest C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago: Harry Cotten, president of the McCormick Theological School at Chicago; Remhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary; and Reverend Palfrey Perkins '05, minister at King's Chapel...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Divinity School at Crossroads, Awaits Commission's Findings On Possibility of Reformation | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

Facts & Figures. She had been found guilty, not of succumbing to the temptations of professional tennis, but merely of inquiring about them. A month ago in Manhattan, Pauline Betz had asked friends how well a pro tour with ex-Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke would draw. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, wrote a brazenly open letter to 1,200 tennis clubs here & abroad, suggesting that Pauline and Sarah might be willing to play on their courts for a small fee-say, $350 on weekdays and $500 on weekends. In natural bewilderment-for even a tennis amateur is not allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exit Pauline | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Face. Last fall, after three years as national champion, Pauline Betz had her first major setback, from 33-year-old Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who came out of retirement to tournament play. Sarah took the crown away from Pauline at Forest Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way of a Champ | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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