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Bill Roberts--the senior manager of the Harvard tennis team who had never played in a varsity match, hell, never even come close--had his dream come true Sunday when coach Dave Fish paired him with Andy Chaikovsky at third doubles during the season finale at Cornell.

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

The match didn't mean a heckuva lot, really. Harvard had already won the team competition to secure a second-place league finish (behind Princeton) by the time Roberts and Chaikovsky took the court. By the time they left the court, though, the Crimson racquetmen were hugging and screaming as...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

"I really was pumped for it," Roberts said yesterday. "I'd been sitting on the sidelines for a while, and this was the shot. Winning it was even better than getting into medical school."

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

From the outset, though, we have to get a little conflict of interest out of the way. Bill Roberts is my roommate. For the better part of four years the two of us have watched from the sidelines as three other roommates, captain Kevin Shaw, two-man Andy Chaikovsky, and...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tory Wind of Change | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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