Alice Marble Figure

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Alice marble figure. The divine miss marble is about alice marble s rise from a humble childhood overcoming serious illness to become the best player in the world which included open and wimbledon titles. It was alice marble a tennis star working then with kelly in the newly created office of civilian physical training. The book shares its name with iconic spy nazi fighter and dc editor alice marble s column that used to run in golden age women woman comics. Alice marble and the day the wall crumbled.
Her legs are like two columns of polished mahogany bare to the knees her figure perfect she was also a survivor. Alice marble is selected as the outstanding woman athlete of 1939. But the best young prospect in the game althea gibson a lanky kid from harlem who dominated when she was allowed to play was black. Alice marble september 28 1913 december 13 1990 was an american tennis player who won 18 grand slam championships 1936 40.
American tennis player alice marble 1913 1990 captured the world s attention and multiple titles beginning in the mid 1930s. The book receives 4 3 out of 5 clickers. Born in the small town of beckwourth plumas county. Not much digging was necessary to discover that despite their great fame neither kelly nor roosevelt was the photo s most interesting historical figure.
In 1950 our sport had a problem. 54 experts place tennis star at top miss marble named leading woman athlete of year in associated press poll wins by record. Legend says that a beautiful woman named alice marble gray lived with a drifter. Five in singles six in women s doubles and seven in mixed doubles.
Weintraub quotes journalist arthur brisbane who wrote what a girl alice marble is with everything the venus de milo has plus two muscular bare sunburned arms marvelously efficient. Alice marble was the foremost female tennis player in the years before world war ii. It also takes the reader back to hollywood life of the 30s and world war ii. Tennis was white all white and nothing but white.
She became a glamorous figure in her own right and gained a.