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Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...
Married. Richard Savitt, 34, 1951 Wimbledon champion who now mixes stock brokerage with the racquets, last February retired the National Indoor tennis trophy by winning it for the third time; and Louise Liberman, 20, Manhattan debutante; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...roster was No.1-ranked Darlene Hard, who was recovering from hepatitis. Pressed into service was veteran Margaret Osborne du Pont. 43. who had not played a Wightman Cup match in three years. The other U.S. girls-none over 18-looked raw and unpromising alongside such seasoned British stars as Wimbledon Champion Angela Mortimer, Runner-up Christine Truman, and French Champion Ann Haydon. What made the upset all the more upsetting was the 18-year-old who engineered it: a rangy (5 ft. 6 ½in., 125 Ibs.) brunette from St. Louis named Justina Bricka...
With only six years of competitive tennis behind her, Justina outplayed 29-year-old Wimbledon Champion Mortimer 10-8, 4-6. 6-3. in the match that clinched U.S. victory. Only child of non-tennis-playing parents, soft-hitting Justina ranked only eleventh among U.S. women, and was noted primarily for her unspectacular retrieving game. But last week, her accurate placements kicking up puffs of chalk along the baseline. Lefthander Bricka ran Angela Mortimer so hard that the British player suffered leg cramps and had to withdraw from the final doubles match. To sew up the crucial third set-which...
...Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born in London and raised in Scotland, she met Actor Michael Wells at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, married him, now lives in a dusty flat in an unfashionable part of Chelsea among half-dead flowers...