- du Pont, Margaret Osborne by Cadence James
... 1918– ) tennis player; born in Joseph, Ore. She won five French, seven Wimbledon, and an unprecedented 24 U.S. Championships, in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, between 1941 and 1962.
- Kramer, Jack by Miranda Lewis
... won the U.S. National doubles championship in 1940 and again in 1941. While serving (1942–46) in the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II, Kramer continued to play tournament tennis, and in 1943 (with Frank Parker) he again won the national doubles title. In 1946–47 he led the U.S. Teams that won the Davis Cup, and he also won the national singles title, the ...
- Wightman, Hazel by Devin Bowman
... 1886–1974) tennis player; born in Healdsburg, Calif. She won the U.S. Women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles three times each (1909–11), a record shared by only two others. Nicknamed the "Queen Mother of Tennis," she won a total of 45 national championships.
- Kramer, Jack by Garrett Tucker
Orig. John Albert Kramer(born Aug. 1, 1921, Las Vegas, Nev., U.S.) U.S. Tennis player and promoter. He won the Wimbledon singles (1947) and men's doubles (1946–47), the U.S. Singles (1946–47), men's doubles (1940–41, 1943, 1947), and mixed doubles (1941) and was on the winning Davis Cup team in 1946. He played professional tennis from 1947 to 1952 and was ...
- My Double and How He Undid Me by Vincent Arnold
story of a lazy minister who has his look-alike impersonator do all his chores. [Am. Lit.: Hayden & Fuller, 456] See: Doubles