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...Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest player in the history of the tournament, Tracy convincingly won her first match against Holland's Elly Vessies-Appel 6-3, 6-3. Her curtsy to the Duke of Devonshire might have been gangly legged and selfconscious, but her tennis was graceful and self-confident...
Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...
...pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp glazed intercuts of Ocean Park...
Like Egypt's King Tutankhamen, who had a couple of golden chariots buried near him when he died in 1352 B.C., Californian Sandra Ilene West is journeying to the hereafter in style. Oil Heiress West died two months ago (the cause has not been determined) at the age of 37. Last week Mrs. West was buried, as she requested, "in my lace nightgown ... in my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." At the San Antonio cemetery where her husband is also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate...
Harvard pitcher Steve Baloff doesn't have to worry about a job after he finishes up at Harvard; the lanky Californian showed great talent announcing the batters on the P.A. system during the Northeastern game. May 6 123 456 789 R H E Brown 000 000 020 2 13 2 HARVARD 102 011 04X 9 11 2 Batteries: B--Pearson (1), Wright (8) and Hand. H--McOsker (W: 4-0) and Trembowicz...