Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl of Rosebery; Lady Byng, widow of onetime Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, World War I hero of Vimy Ridge. Said Lady Byng...
Divorced. May Sutton Bundy, Women's National Singles Champion of 1904, twice winner of the Wimbledon Trophy; and Thomas C. Bundy, Santa Monica real-estate man, three times National Doubles Champion; after a 17-year separation; in Los Angeles...
...years gone by, early July tournaments such as these caused only a raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For the Gold Racquet tournament-inaugurated last year by Manhattan Banker Harvey D. Gibson to publicize his native village as a summer as well as a winter resort-has already become an important event on the U. S. tennis calendar. On display at North Conway was 20-year-old Frank Kovacs...
There will be no Davis Cup, no Wightman Cup, no Wimbledon matches this summer. It is the war. But what shocked U. S. tennis fans last week was the announcement that Boston's Longwood Cricket Club had been forced to cancel its tournament, for nearly half a century a major tune-up for the national championships. Reason: aristocratic Longwood can no longer afford to pay America's top-ranking amateurs (most of whom come from California) the "expenses" they demand for appearing in tournaments...
...soldier with a flaming torch escorted Mr. Hore-Belisha home through the London blackout. "I may be back!" he told a War Office messenger, and to reporters who rushed to his small suburban estate at Wimbledon Common he mysteriously confided, "This is very big, much bigger than you imagine-it had to come." Over the weekend Bachelor Hore-Belisha refused to answer his ceaselessly jangling phone, slit open with satisfaction scores of telegrams and cables of sympathy and indignation, many from U. S. citizens. Good or bad, the reasons for the dramatic ouster of War Secretary Hore-Belisha, which caught...