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...tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which sometimes involved swimming Rock Creek or the Potomac River. "If we swam the Potomac," T.R. recalled in his autobiography, "we usually took off our clothes. I remember one such occasion when the French ambassador...
...precocious and inquisitive, and when he arrived at the Browning School in New York at the age of nine, he was two years ahead of his class. At Harvard, where he was a shy and awkward youth, he concentrated on fine arts, was a second-string tennist and president of the literary Signet Club. He graduated with honors...
Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...
...Members of the St. Evita News Vendors' Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest of eight or ten Argentine beauties to be mentioned as a companion of the President, and likely prospect to succeed the late Evita Perón as First Lady of Argentina...
...days later, cashing in on their smashing cup performance, Sedgman and McGregor announced that they were giving up the short green grass of amateur play for the long green of professional tennis: a whopping $100,000 guarantee from Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. Teaming up with Pancho Segura, Tennist Kramer will meet Sedgman and McGregor in a nationwide tour that starts in Los Angeles this week...