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Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christian novelist born in Fairfax, Virginia. She was a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times and later wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News . Her first book, Missy's Murder (1991), was based on a murder story that she covered in Los Angeles .
Thelma Kingsbury (1911–1979), (later, in succession: Thelma Scovil, Thelma Welcome, Thelma Lougheed) was an English-born, naturalised American sportswoman who won major badminton titles in the British Isles and then in the US from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Badminton fails to receive substantial media attention in the United States and with that comes low wages. Participants can earn up to $15,000 for winning a championship, which is a relatively small amount of money in comparison to an average football player that has a salary of $2.7 million.
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There is also a separate U.S. Open Badminton Championships which is open to foreign competitors. The history of the two tournaments is rather complicated. Prior to 1954 all U.S. Badminton Championships had a "closed" format with only U.S. citizens and residents eligible to compete. From 1954 through 1969 the tournament was open to foreign ...
Publishers Weekly wrote that "Despite the plot's limitations, Kingsbury fans will undoubtedly be pleased by more of the inspirational fiction for which this author has become beloved." [ 2 ] A review in The Daily Oklahoman wrote that the story had an "unusual plot" and that Kinsgbury "paints a sweet picture of unending love."
Henderson born in 1905 [2] was a four times winner of the All England Open Badminton Championships. She won four consecutive women's doubles with Thelma Kingsbury from 1933 to 1936. The first success was in her maiden name of Bell. [3] In addition she won the Scottish Open in 1935, 1937 and 1937.