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...after blasting every amateur in sight off the courts, Rod Laver decided to cash in on what he thought were the riches and glamour of the professional tennis circuit. He soon had second thoughts. In his U.S. pro debut he met Barry MacKay on a canvas court that had been spread across the undulating wood planking covering the Boston Garden ice-hockey rink. "Trying to return Barry's big serve on that bumpy court," recalls Laver, "was like trying to swat jackrabbits with a broom. 'Jesus,' I thought, 'so this is the pro tennis tour...
Restic is fully aware that he faces an overload of personnel at several positions, which lends itself to unhappy benchwarming. The foremost case of unhappiness last Fall involved quarterbacking, where Rod Foster and Eric Crone traded the job every five minutes for five games, and Rex Blankenship got left somewhere in the shadows...
yours in the struggle vladimir/merlin p.s. throw in the galleys to that damn fool book you've been promising and we'll throw in another hundred thou. with luck it'll sell better than Rod McKuen...
...unapproachable." Even a few Australians have agreed. Every year some 6,000 of them leave home, mostly for Europe and America, and even today a large percentage of the best-known Australians are expatriates. Among them: Soprano Joan Sutherland, Dancer Robert Helpmann, Actress Zoe Caldwell, Actors Leo McKern and Rod Taylor, Writers Morris West and Alan Moorehead, Artist Sidney Nolan...
...ninth-grader waiting for a basketball game, picking up a tennis racquet for the first time, catching the coach's eye, and playing for the state champion varsity the next spring. By the end of the interview, the reporter was asking coach Jack Barnaby if Joe couldn't beat Rod Laver if he set his mind on tennis...