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...didn't happen quite that way. Chris Evert demolished Edda Buding, 6-1, 6-0, then beat the fourth-ranked American woman, Mary Ann Eisel, in the second round, saving six match points with finely honed strokes that would soon become famous: cross-court forehands and sweeping, two-fisted backhands down the line. Suddenly she was "Little Chrissie, Cinderella in Sneakers," enthroned on center court. She whipped the fifth seed, Franchise Durr, and Australian Lesley Hunt. She reached the semifinals, the youngest player ever to climb to the final four, before finally losing to Billie Jean King, the eventual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Cinderella, Just the Best | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Young, a black, overruled his own police chief when he tried to ban handguns. A ban on the manufacture of handguns would certainly cut down one source of supply, but the production of guns would hardly be eliminated. "It would create rather than solve a problem," says Lieut. James Eisel, an officer in Wayne State University's public safety department. "You would wind up with a vast black market supplied and run by organized crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUNS: NO CHANCE FOR QUICK RELIEF | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...Louis' durable, blonde Carol Hanks. 19: the National Indoor singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis titles-a clean sweep-at Longwood Covered Courts in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Carol teamed with Chauncey Steele III in the mixed doubles and with home-town Friend Mary Ann Eisel, 16, in the doubles, needed only 36 min. to dust off Mary Ann, 6-2, 6-2. in the singles final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won: Mar. 8, 1963 | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Restyled. In Pittsburgh, Carpenter Paul Eisel got so mad at his wife for serving pork chops that he smashed the dining-room table and several other pieces of furniture, remarked before he was fined $10 that it was "hand-me-down stuff, anyway. I was planning to have it replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Visibility was zero. On his first pass the pilot missed the field; he circled for another try. Staff Sergeant George A. Eisel, in the tail turret, caught a blurry glimpse of the ground. Then, with a rending crash, the plane tore itself to wreckage against a low hillside. Eisel was hurled from his seat, forward among the dead. Flames licked close enough to singe his eyelashes before drenching rain put the fire out; 26 hours later he was able to tell rescuers what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,THE DRAFT,MORALE: Not in Bed | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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