Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from London, 5,200 miles away. When he tried for continental stations, he had even better luck with a standard German TV set and a simple suburban-type aerial. Across his 17-in. screen nickered the Pope celebrating Easter Mass at St. Peter's in Rome, tennis at Wimbledon, opera from Bremen...
Allergy. In Wimbledon, England, bearded Michael Kelly, 42, arrested on a charge of trespassing, told the court he was unemployed, adding, "I did work for two days in my life once, but it did not agree with...
Playing with the authority of a Wimbledon championship behind her, Althea lost not a set as she worked her way onto the center court for the payoff match with California's Louise Brough. A canny and experienced campaigner who had won the title herself just ten years ago, Louise tried every trick she knew to stave off the inevitable. She pounded Althea's weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots...
Ruthless Geometry. Back home after her victory in Paris and her quarter-final defeat at Wimbledon, Althea made a disappointing showing at Forest Hills, but she was sure by then that she would stick with tennis. She continued to work steadily with a new coach, Sydney Llewellyn, a Negro pro from New York with an unusual knack for teaching his rigidly defined theory of tennis. The game to Llewellyn is a ruthless exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just...
...playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more emphatic: "Althea improved 400% in the last four years. She's the world's champ-and doggone it, she's earned...