Alice Marble Figure. It was alice marble a tennis star working then with kelly in the newly created office of civilian physical training. Alice marble september 28 1913 december 13 1990 was an american tennis player who won 18 grand slam championships 1936 40. Not much digging was necessary to discover that despite their great fame neither kelly nor roosevelt was the photo s most interesting historical figure.
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 is selected as the outstanding woman athlete of 1939.
Alice marble is selected as the outstanding woman athlete of 1939.
Legend says that a beautiful woman named alice marble gray lived with a drifter. 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. She was an outsized figure during this time alice marvel the garbo of tennis courts the. 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.
