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...American contemporary and turned both the female and male sides of the French Open into historic celebrations of youth. "When Chang beat Lendl ((in the fourth round))," Sanchez said, "I think then I have a chance against Steffi. Plus, look what Monica did." Monica Seles, a two-fisted Yugoslav giggler, every bit of 15, terrified Graf in their three-set semifinal. "That gave me hope," said Sanchez, who came back in the championship match from a 3-5 deficit in the final set to win the last four games and Spain's only women's title. (Poor, dilapidated old Steffi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...early years of Richard Nixon in this week's LIFE by Staff Writer Donald Jackson, who spent weeks searching out and interviewing the President's relatives, boyhood friends and old acquaintances. From an early age, Jackson writes, Nixon was "a serious child; he was never a giggler." Nixon's mother recalled: "Most boys go through a mischievous period; then they grow up and think they know all the answers. Well, none of these things ever happened to Richard. He was very mature even when he was five or six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Portrait of the Young Nixon | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...grounds that their name was too difficult to spell and pronounce, the couple petitioned Los Angeles County Superior Court for a legal change of cognomen. Laugh-In's blonde giggler, Goldie Hawn, came to court with her Greek-born producer husband as Mr. and Mrs. Kostas Tritchonis. They emerged as Mr. and Mrs. Gus Trikonis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1970 | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized its usefulness, thus loses some of his customary forceful directness. Ruth Gordon, a noted giggler, makes the stage Mattie sillier than Edith Wharton intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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