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Honorable mentions were awarded to John W. Gibson, Etta Wolpert, and Jack Sullivan. Miss Wolpert is an assistant professor at Haverhill North Essex Community College. Gibson is a junior at Emerson College...
That made it an All-Aussie final, the sixth in nine years. Stolle's opponent: Roy Emerson, 28, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, but always before an also-ran at Wimbledon-in eight tries, he had never reached the finals. This time, Emerson went all the way. Despite intermittent showers that forced officials to stop the match three times, he polished off Stolle in four straightforward, serve-volley sets...
...worst blow was yet to come. Last May both Emerson and Stolle were booted off the Australian Davis Cup squad for playing in foreign tournaments without permission. But as soon as the results from Wimbledon were in, Aussie tennis officials started talking about lifting...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 27: the London Grass Court tennis tournament, last big tune-up for Wimbledon, with a skin-of-the-teeth victory over Tomas Lejus, 22, first Russian ever to reach the finals of a major tennis tournament. Unseeded and unheralded, Lejus beat Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the semifinals, played Emerson almost even for 90 min. before losing...
Despite his prediction of the "New Jerusalem," Swedenborg died a Lutheran, and was buried according to the rites of the Swedish church. In 1784, his followers organized a society to propagate his teachings, which have influenced such disparate figures as Balzac, Emerson, Lincoln, and Helen Keller. Today there are more than 7,000 loyal Swedenborgians in the U.S. (and about 45,000 elsewhere) who belong to three churches. The biggest concentration of them is in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn; there, most of the town's population of 1,100 belong to the General Church...