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Alas, you won't be able to see Boston's other league-leading team, the Lobsters of the World Team Tennis League. All the Lobsters, you see, are cavorting at Wimbledon, where some of them will be steamed, de-clawed, and served with drawn batter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

...McEnroe, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last summer, picked up the crown by winning an incredible third tiebreaker...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Lundy Falls in NCAA Singles | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

Only Lapidus, a ball-smashing south-paw, has any realistic chance of placing high in the tournament. Defending team champion Stanford did not graduate a player, and it added Wimbledon semifinalist John McEnroe. McEnroe, teammate and defending individual champ Matt Mitchell, UCLA's John Austin, Elliot Teltscher and Trinity's Larry Gottfried should fight it out for number-one individual honors...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Teams Take Off for NCAA Tourneys | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Sandy Denny, 31, understated British singer-songwriter who set contemporary lyrics to music rooted in traditional folk themes; of a brain hemorrhage as a result of a fall; in Wimbledon, England. As lead vocalist for the folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Denny became Britain's top female vocalist at the end of the 1960s, respected for her quiet professionalism and musical inventiveness, then left at the peak of her popularity to form another group, Fotheringay, which floundered. After a brief reunion with Fairport, she went on to solo in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...huge sums of money long after their powers have faded. Occasionally that happens. But men and women in most sports do not even reach athletic maturity until they are well into their 20s, or even later. It was not until she had hit 31 that Virginia Wade won Wimbledon last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: To an Athlete Getting Old | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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