Word: merion
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...forty-first annual tournament for the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship of the United States will begin on June 28, on the grass courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverlord, Pa. The tournament will be conducted by the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association and the Merion Cricket Club, under the auspices of the United States Lawn Tennis Association...
Accommodations will be provided for contestants at the 'Merion Cricket Club during the tournament...
...general, a good guy. The son of journeyman NBA forward Joe (Jellybean) Bryant, Kobe speaks fluent Italian from having lived in Italy for the eight years when Joe played pro ball there. At suburban Philadelphia's Lower Merion High, where he led his team to the state championship and broke the region's all-time high school scoring record once held by Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe had good grades and SAT scores. "He never really talked to women," says Emory Dabney, 22, a high school teammate who stayed friendly with the star after Bryant turned pro. "He concentrated on basketball...
DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, best-selling author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, whose crystalline prose gave mainstream audiences a nuanced glimpse into the rarely seen world of religious Jews; of brain cancer; in Merion, Pa. Potok's novels repeatedly addressed the struggle between religious devotion and love for the secular world, a tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly...
...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...