Frank Buchman As I Knew Him by H.W. 'Bunny' Austin

Frank Buchman As I Knew Him by H.W. 'Bunny' Austin

This paperback book was published in 1975 by Grosvenor Books in London.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1:

“WHAT KIND OF A MAN WAS FRANK BUCHMAN?

I met him for the first time in 1934 when I was at the height of my tennis career. In 1931 I had been ranked the number 2 player in the world. The following year I had reached the first of my two Wimbledon finals. In 1933 I was a member of the team which won the Davis Cup for Britain for the first time for 21 years.

My wife, too, Phyllis Konstam, whom I had met when she was playing opposite Laurence Olivier on Broadway in 1929, was playing leading roles on stage and starring in films. My life was filled with the glitter of all that success brings in the world of sport and theatre.

But the ghosts of the First World War haunted me. I was appalled by the suffering the war had brought and by the economic collapse which had followed in its wake. And on the not too distant horizon were already appearing the menacing clouds of another war.

What was it all about? Where did an answer lie?

In January 1934 I went to play tennis in the South of France and it was here I met Frank Buchman. Though I did not know it at the time it was an hour of great development in his work. The Oxford Group, later to be called Moral Re-Armament, which he initiated, was spreading rapidly across the nations.”

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H. W. 'Bunny' Austin was a member of the victorious British team which won the Davis Cup four years running (1933 - 36). Runner-up in the men's singles in Wimbledon twice, in 1932 and 1938, he is still remembered as the most stylish tennis player ever to grace Wimbledon. He was ranked number one player in the world in 1938. Since that year no other Englishman has made it to the finals of Wimbledon. He was at the height of his career in the late 1930s when he met Moral Re-Armament and embarked on another great adventure. He is married to the actress Phyllis Konstam. His other books are 'Bits and Pieces', 'Lawn Tennis Made Easy' 'Under The Heavens' and 'A Mixed Double' (with Phyllis Konstam).

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This paperback book is in good condition with some minor wear to the cover.

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