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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Chip 'n' Dale (but not Chippendales)

For last week's headline theme, we gave the hint: "[W]e'll say that you might serve while doing this, but nobody is going to eat." On Saturday, we added: "We could plausibly have used the words King, Queens and Prince." And now the solution, courtesy of reader T.M. in New York City, NY:

Every headline has a tennis term in it.

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No Man's Land is the space between the two vertical lines on the court, the baseline and the half-court line. As to Saturday's clue, Billie Jean King is a legendary tennis player, Queens is where they play the U.S. Open, and Prince is a popular brand of tennis equipment. Oh, and a chip, from the headline of this item, is a type of shot.

Here are the first 50 readers to get it right:

B.P. in Arlington Heights, IL
M.R. in Milford, CT
T.M. in New York City
M.W. in Altea, Spain
D.B. in Glendale, CA
K.F. in Berea, KY
R.L. in Concord, MA
M.W. in Frederick, MD
D.M. in Austin, TX
J.T. in Philadelphia, PA
D.S. in Layton, UT
M.C.A. in San Francisco, CA
J.U. in Chicago, IL
J.C. in Bloomfield, NJ
S.W. in Winter Garden, FL
B.P. in La Habra, CA
M.M. in Charlottesville, VA
R.C. in Eagleville, PA
G.K. in Blue Island, IL
J.S. in Somerset, MA
S.K. in Ardmore, PA
C.K. in Aston, PA
G.W. in Avon, CT
M.M. in Dunellen, NJ
B.A. in Edmond, OK

I.H. in Washington, DC
B.C. in Manhattan Beach, CA
M.T. in Wheat Ridge, CO
M.B. in Albany, NY
R.D. in Cheshire, CT
S.F. in Hutto, TX
D.D. in Carversville, PA
W.M. in Istanbul, Turkey
J.M. in New Orleans, LA
D.B. in Pittsboro, NC
D.M. in Seattle, WA
D.C. in South Elgin, IL
T.F. in Craftsbury Common, VT
K.R. in Austin, TX
S.W. in Madison, WI
C.M. in Ottawa, ON, Canada
D.K. in Chicago, IL
P.D. in Leamington, ON, Canada
N.S. in Fayetteville, NY
M.M. in Manahawkin, NJ
K.O. in Winnipeg, MB, Canada
J.M. in Grayson, GA
E.R. in Alexandria, VA
J.E. in San Jose, CA
M.M. in Leonardtown, MD

Several respondents sent in the famous photo of Donald Trump playing tennis, where his rear end and tighty-whities are on full display. If anyone does that again, we may have to ban you from the site.

As to this week's theme, it relies on a single word in every headline, and it's in the Trivial Pursuit category Nicknames. For a hint, we'll tell you that we added "Chippendales" to the headline of this item, in part, because it's adjacent to the theme, in a manner of speaking.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line "October 4 Headlines." (Z)

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