Word: couriers
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...popular character to television. His new ABC series, which begins next week, follows the exploits of young Indy as he travels the world with his father, a college professor, and encounters some of the most famous people and events of the early 20th century. Indy serves as a courier at the Battle of Verdun, meets the young Picasso in Paris, goes big-game hunting with Teddy Roosevelt, matches wits with Sigmund Freud and even has a hot romance with Mata Hari. There are thrills and chills, but also -- here's where the derring-do comes in -- a dose of history...
Already, during the past year no other tour player has come close to his consistency in high-pressure circumstances. Of the half a dozen biggest events on the men's tour -- the four Grand Slams, the tour finale and the Lipton International in Key Biscayne, Fla. -- Courier won three and made the finals of two others. Says novelist Eliot Berry, whose book about the past two years on the tennis circuit, Tough Draw, will be published in August: "Tennis is in significant part a game of intimidation. Although Courier is well behaved, his physical and mental toughness make him very...
...Courier's muted style is most striking in contrast to the sport's Las Vegas running rebel, Andre Agassi, a model of meticulously manicured grubbiness . whose endorsement career is tied to the unconsciously self-damning phrase "Image is everything." Courier's image is Everyman. Agassi has devoted himself to becoming a teen idol, in the process stirring more talk about his hairdos and haberdashery than about his serves and volleys. When reporters mention Agassi's millions from endorsement deals, Courier replies that he can make plenty wielding a racquet. Not that he is ruling out any options -- he has just...
Half a dozen years back, Courier and Agassi were roommates at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Fla. Courier left, griping that the flashy Agassi was getting more attention from owner Bollettieri. Courier, the slow but steady type, won the Orange Bowl, a junior tournament, at 16. But he didn't win a pro-tour event until 1989 and didn't add another victory until just 11 months ago, at Indian Wells, Calif. Meanwhile, his agemates Michael Chang and Pete Sampras had joined Agassi in surging ahead. A year and a half ago, when asked to rank...
...Courier surprised almost everyone. At Indian Wells last year, after early- round victories, he said he was winning because he had new self-knowledge and discipline. At the time most reporters thought he was just having a lucky week. He has turned it into the luck of a lifetime...