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Spassky also harbored some surprises. Though often pictured as the witty, urbane sportsman going against the Brooklyn brat, Boris was himself a spoiled chess darling. Depressed, out of shape, drinking too much and beset with marital problems in the months before the match, he was "less interested in winning the title," says Darrach, "than in pulling himself out of the worst emotional hole he had ever been...
Died. Sir Arnold Lunn, 86, pioneering authority on skiing; in London. In the 1920s Lunn invented the modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...
Tenor Franco Corelli is a former Italian rowing champion, while Tenor Placido Domingo tried out as a bullfighter in Mexico. Now Middle Linebacker Paul Glanton, 20, of the University of Minnesota Gophers seems likely to become yet another singing sportsman. Each afternoon these days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference...
...YEARS AGO, Jimmy Connors (20 year old winner of Longwood, 1973) was a winner in the making. Straight out of Bellevue, Ill. Connors had money, but he was not a rich boy. Because Connors needed to win. A rich boy is reared in the tradition of the gentleman sportsman--where it is gauche to want to win too badly, and where giving all to one sport at the exclusion of the others is missing out on the good life. He doesn't need to win because he is already there. But Connors was brought up under the pressures...
Died. Frederick Marcus Warburg, 75, sportsman, philanthropist, and for 42 years an internationally minded senior partner and so-called "foreign minister" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of Wall Street's oldest and most powerful banking and investment firms; of heart disease; in Winchester...