Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editor Michael Parrish, former managing director of the monthly San Francisco, and Consulting Editor Rosalie Muller Wright, former editor of womenSports-across the country to talk publishing with some successful pros. Among them have been New York magazine Editor Clay Felker, New Times Publisher George Hirsch, Ms. Co-Founder Gloria Steinem and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch, a former TIME bureau chief who successfully launched the innovative monthly Learning. Coppola did not like what he heard. "Publishing is worse than the movie business-the egos, the feeling that you've stepped in somebody else's terrain...
...search for material Exley tries to secure interviews with Gloria Steinem. Norman Mailer, and people close to a favorite author, Edmund Wilson. The interviews, however, don't help. For one thing Exley is not an experienced interviewer, and he admits he's too scared of Steinem to ask the one interesting question he prepared, so unless you're interested in knowing that Steinem is difficult to get an appointment with, and what Exley wore and what they ate for lunch, there's very little there...
Other competitors for Radcliffe were Gloria Felde, with a third in the 200 low hurdles. Diana Gilligan with a third in the high jump. Pam Hooper with a third in the long jump and a second in the 220. Valerie Taylor with a second in the shotput, Cindy Young with a third in the discus, Clara Tatrallyay with a second in the high jump. Roxanne Sismandis with a third in the 880. Janet Campbell with a second in the mile. Michelle Holmes with a third in the 440, and Linda Martin with a third...
...Connors hits every shot, especially his two-fisted backhand, with jackhammer force, pounding down an opponent with his nonstop attack. Small-bodied, he gets his power from outsize muscular shoulders and a swing calibrated to bang the ball on the rise, a technique first taught him by his mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura's First Law. Charge the ball, he insists, lean into it and meet it on the rise. That attack tactic maximizes power...
...main influence in Jimmy's life, and the two appear to have an uneasy relationship. It was Jimmy's mother, a tournament player and teaching pro, who began tossing tennis balls at Connors when he was three. "I started him as soon as he could walk pretty well," recalls Gloria, still in her perky 40s. "Jimmy took to tennis like it was part of him," she says. "He had his game together by the time he was five." By the time he was ten, Connors had won his first tournament, the Southern Illinois for players ten years old and under...