Word: lenglen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten her. But at an age when all the other topflighters are slipping downhill or have retired (e.g., Maureen Connolly, Shirley Fry), Althea...