Unflappable: Whitney Reed Part 4

The Palm Spring Racket Club was a Hollywood hang out with a famous bar where the Bloody Mary was invented. Tennis players, the world-class variety, did not earn a bundle of money practicing their craft in Whitney’s day—to make an understatement. Unlike today's players, they didn't have coaches, trainers, and publicists. They had patrons of sorts, and every once in a while a player would fall into a situation that was too good to believe. Like when Whitney flew in a military aircraft from Palm Springs to San Juan, Puerto Rico for a tournament. Whitney had just won the Palm Springs Invitational. He was sitting at the famous Bamboo Bar in the Racquet Club having a few beers with an actor named Charlie Farrell, who, along with another actor named Ralph Belamy, founded the club. In its heyday the Racquet Club was a Hollywood hangout. The Bloody Mary was invented there. Marilyn Monroe was discovered there. No "tea time" but a victory in Puerto Rico for Vic Sexias. Suddenly Whitney realized that he had missed his connection out of Palm Springs International Airport. Farrell said no problem. He made a phone call and the next thing Whitney knew, he was...