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Buffs who watch Vic Braden's televised Tennis Tips often come away saying, "He ought to write a book." Well, he has. His Tennis for the Future, written with Bill Bruns (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $12.95), is the Wimbledon of the wildly proliferating genre of tennis instruction books, clearly outclassing all the others. With humor, psychology, basic physics, clear diagrams and multiple-exposure pictures by John G. Zimmerman, Braden demolishes many long-cherished (and totally wrong) notions about tennis strokes and strategy. Readers are left with what is probably their first clear insight into why that elusive, fuzzy ball...
...Braden's notion of the miserable, duty-whipped jogger is hard to support by talking to the runners themselves. In farm country near Aurora, Ill., a couple of weeks ago, 17 souls who could have been sitting in front of the tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water...
...some, the Aerobics routine may seem too much like what Vic Braden said jogging is, a second job. Another profitable brawnstorm, this one invented in Europe and developed in the U.S. by Peter Stocker, is called Parcourse. Dotted around its 1½-mile track are signs, directing the faithful to stop and perform an exercise, then jog on. Pa-course suggests a hybrid of miniature golf and the stations of the cross, and citizens should be warned, because its franchises, creeping eastward from California, can now be found in 65 cities...
Died. Diana Hyland, 41, versatile, blonde character actress who most recently played Joan Braden, energetic wife of Washington Columnist Tom Braden and mother of their attractive brood, in ABC's Eight Is Enough; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...panel of journalists that will ask Bok questions this Sunday will include Lawrence E. Spivak '21, of the NBC news staff; Thomas Braden, of the Los Angeles Times; and Edward B. Fiske, education editor for The New York Times...