Word: althea
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...must protest your Aug. 26 issue of TIME with Althea Gibson on the cover. We have enough trouble with these people without paying for a magazine which carries such news. You will ruin your magazine if you continue to run such articles. Don't do it again...
...accept Kim Novak, Khrushchev, and even Chief Justice Warren on your covers, but I'm afraid I couldn't stand your Althea Gibson cover around the house...
...insight you portrayed in your story on Althea Gibson was very heartwarming. She is a tribute to her race and a great credit not only to tennis but to all American athletes and I believe she will be the "best woman tennis player who ever lived...
...ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more emphatic: "Althea improved 400% in the last four years. She's the world's champ-and doggone it, she's earned...
...Says Althea: "After Forest Hills I'm gonna rest. But, barring illness, I don't see why I can't play till I'm 35. If I have any ambition, it's to be the best woman tennis player who ever lived...