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...Thank you for the many compliments in your write-up of me and my lucky week at Forest Hills [TIME, Sept. 17] . . . However, the impression that I received lessons from Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom in exchange for retrieving tennis balls is incorrect. He received payment from my family for my instruction from the beginning...
Other men chosen were Charles E. Wyzanski '27, a federal district court judge; Elliott Dunlap Smith '13, provost of Carnegie Tech; Marion B. Folsom, treasurer and a director of Eastman Kodak; and Arthur W. Page '05, a public relations consultant and a former vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
Other men chosen were Charles E. Wyzanski '27, a federal district court judge: Elliott Dunlap Smith '13, provost of Carnegie Tech; Marion B. Folsom, treasurer and a director of Eastman Kodak; and Arthur W. Page '05, a public relations consultant and a former vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...Real Find. When Maureen was much shorter and only ten, back in San Diego, her widowed mother, a church organist, moved into a modest home only half a block from the courts run by Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom. Graduating from fence-peeking, Maureen began retrieving balls in exchange for lessons. Folsom converted her from a lefthander, taught her a strategy of baseline defense...
When Maureen was eleven, Folsom knew he had a real find on his hands, persuaded one of his well-heeled patrons to subsidize Maureen's lessons with famed Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, who coached Helen Wills, Bobby Riggs and Alice Marble to glory. Teach, who has tutored Maureen ever since, began developing the dainty little baseliner into a hard-driving attacker...