Word: gloria
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Taubman continued his study of the superstar's style - both on and off the court - during interviews with his tennis-pro mother Gloria Connors and his Wimbledon-winning sometime fiancée Chris Evert. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein talked to Connors' manager Bill Riordan, tennis officials and a courtful of American and Australian pros, including Newcombe. When Rosenstein grew up in Brooklyn, his game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn...
...weight relay team, which is made up of women who participate in either the discus or shot put events, covered the 440-yard distance (4 X 110) in 65.8 seconds. Cynthia Young (17 seconds), Gloria Felde (16 seconds), Diana Gilligan (17 seconds) and Clara Tatrallyay (16 seconds) combined to garner third place out of the 16 schools entered...
...MASS IN B MINOR started out as part of a job application. When J.S. Bach wanted the job of Court Composer for King August II, he submitted parts of the Kyrie and Gloria as testimony to his ability and devotion...
Times Op Ed page, where the photo finally appeared last week. It was accompanied by Veteran Viet Nam Reporter Gloria Emerson's article about the men in it and their role in Viet Nam's continuing tragedy. Emerson, now a freelance writer, wrote, "I wonder if their dreams are dark and ugly things, if any of them trembled and turned away from the television films of Vietnamese refugees weeping, pleading, talking to themselves." Did they? General Creighton W. Abrams died last September. The ten others showed no signs of trembling and have turned away to other tasks...
...Said Bunker: "I didn't think the photograph was flattering." Said Berger: "The photograph and the story are absurd. It's not history, it's emotion. Of course I feel a sense of responsibility for Viet Nam, everybody does." Said Colantonio: "I deeply resent the interpretation Gloria Emerson put on my motivations and those of my colleagues while we were carrying out U.S. policies in Viet...