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...girl could be pardoned for having the trembles, and no one, least of all Wimbledon's seeding committee, expected much else of Billie Jean Moffitt. Though she had won a handful of minor U.S. titles, the chunky, bespectacled little Californian was only 18 and had never won a major singles tournament; at Wimbledon last year, she lost out in the very first match. The seeding committee gave her a first-round bye. And then it sent her up against Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the past...
William E. Moffitt, associate professor of Chemistry since 1955, was stricken with a fatal heart attack while playing squash in the Hemenway Gymnasium Friday...
...memorial service for Moffitt was held in Memorial Church, Monday...
...Moffitt, a leader in theoretical chemistry, wrote numerous scientific articles, particularly on the electronic structure of molecules, including mathematical analyses which contributed materially to the knowledge of the forces that bind atomic particles together in molecules...
...Moffitt used mathematics to apply the principles of physics to problems in chemistry. He has been described as one of the few investigators in the world with broad enough knowledge of the three fields to employ them together in theoretical research...