Arthur Marx

To reach the final, Marx knocked off future International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinee John Doeg in the round of 16, Frank Froehling in the quarterfinals, and Gardner Larned in the semifinals. Riggs had blown through his competition to reach the final, and Marx gave him his toughest test of the tournament, stretching the future Hall of Famer to five sets before falling, 11-9, 6-2, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1.

After his time as a tournament tennis player and four years in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, 16 months of which were spent in the South Pacific, he worked as an advertising copywriter, a radio gag man for Milton Berle, and a writer of Hollywood movies, Broadway plays and TV scripts for such hit shows as My Three Sons, All in the Family and Alice. He and his collaborator, Robert Fisher, were head writers for Alice and wrote 40 episodes of that show. Read Less