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Impudent Elf. The week was a fine one all round for the U.S., whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next...
...Chemistry Department's newly appointed assistant professor of Chemistry William E. Moffit will arrive from England shortly to assume his post, Chemistry Department officials announced yesterday...
...Moffit was scheduled to start teaching last September, but he had trouble getting a visa to come here because he was born in Berlin...
Termed "one of England's two most brilliant theoretical chemists," Moffit's specialty is quantum mechanics. He will teach this subject here during the spring...
...Moffit was appointed to take the place of Edgar B. Wilson, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, who is on leave of absence for a year...