Word: esther
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students, Esther John '74, Marty Reife '74, Joseph Rothschild '73.4, Mirian Sagan '75, Craig Steele '74, and Yolanda Weeks '77, said yesterday that they came to Kilson's class to ask him to retract his recent pronouncements on black admissions to college, and to apologize to Harvard's black students...
...Esther John, spokesman for the group, said that "given Kilson's low opinion of black ghetto people, we question the propriety of his views dominating a basic course on the black community...
Craig S. Steele '74 and Esther Johns '74-3 were also among those arrested. The other demonstrators belong to PLP or SDS chapters at Boston University and Northeastern...
First, there is his tennis game: he got started by two women, Dr. Esther Bartoch (then the number three ranking women's player in Los Angeles) and Eleanor Tennant (who later trained Alice Marble). And under them he perfected the winning softspin game, not to mention the psyche-out gimmick. Then there is the crooked way he rose to wealth: he married it, in Priscilla Wheelan (the Wheelan family was sole owner of American Photograph Corp. and Riggs was handed one of its executive positions). He settled down in the corporate saddle for several lazy years -- now that's hardly...
When he was twelve and swinging a racket on a court for the first time (barefoot, as he recalls, since he owned no tennis shoes) Bobby was spotted by Dr. Esther Bartosh, a university anatomy instructor and the third ranking woman player in Los Angeles. Yes, Virginia Slimmers, Bobby Riggs got his start in tennis from a woman. In fact, two women: his later instruction was taken up by Eleanor Tennant, who developed Alice Marble...