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With no John McEnroe from the start and no Jimmy Connors for long, the 100th Wimbledon felt its age. According to Chris Evert Lloyd, 31, "Anyone who chases that yellow ball around a tennis court has to feel young." To exaggerate the point, last week her husband John lost his...
Even in the age of the megamerger, advertising experts believe, there will always be a place for comparatively small shops. They can often best handle the needs of small to medium-size clients, which might get lost in the shuffle at a larger agency. Says Diane Rothschild, a former DDB...
The game was tennis, but the final score was Czechmate. No two Europeans had ever won the U.S. Open singles championships in the same year. But last week Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, 25, and Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who...
The two-hour and thirty-three-minute cakewalk by Lendl represented the first time the Open has been won by a non-American since Argentina's Guillermo Vilas defeated Jimmy Connors back in 1977.
Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In...