Word: althea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terry then resigned in favor of Chief Justice Stephen J. Field, later California's first U.S. Supreme Court Justice. After the Civil War, in which he became a Confederate general, Terry represented the notorious Sarah Althea Hill in her battles to prove that she had been the wife rather than the paramour of a Nevada millionaire. In 1888, after Terry himself married Sarah, the case came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After...
Marriage Revealed. Althea Gibson, 38, former top-ranked U.S. women's tennis star (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), now trying it as a pro golfer (33rd on the ladies' money list this year); and William Darben, 40, production coordinator for Bendix Corp.; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...
GEORGE GALLUP ROBERT M. GANGER WILLIAM F. GIBBS ALTHEA GIBSON SOPHIE GIMBEL DONALD A. GLASER BARRY GOLDWATER RUTH GORDON CHARLES H. GOREN CRAWFORD H. GREENEWALT GEORGE H. GRIBBIN ERNEST GRUENING MRS. WINSTON GUEST HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM
...strange now, that after twelve years of marriage to Hunt, I knew nothing about cleaning house, paying bills or doing the shopping." . - "I have gone as far as I can in tennis. Now I intend to do the same thing in golf." So saying, up-from-Harlem Tennis Queen Althea Gibson, 34, took aim at the U.S. women's amateur golf champion ship next August. Althea has chopped 18 strokes off her average in two years, occasionally cracks 80. drives up to 285 yards, has won several Negro tournaments. "I have," says she, "a God-given talent for being...