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Laurence Carter

And Lew Hoad.' 'Lew Hoad?' Tom took her up quickly, 'You mean - the tennis player?' 'Yes.' Tom whistled quietly. 'If I'd have known I'd have asked you to get me his autograph.' He chuckled. 'Lew Hoad. Blow me down. Anyway, what's he like ...

Tennis Down Under

Fred Stolle

Lew Hoad Lew Hoad was big and strong. Muscular. Emotional. Probably the strongest man ever to play tennis, with feelings as deep and strong as his physical body. If Frank Sedgman was the grand master, Lew Hoad was my idol. When I ...

The Bulletin

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Jenny Hoad: I can imagine a jolly nun, but how jolly can a seal . . . ? Ingrid Bergman: Count your blessings. They had me playing a nun a couple of times and people said I was great. Then what happened? The only time I did anything remotely ...

The Best Australian Essays 1999

Peter Craven

I invaded the privacy of the directors of Distillers, Sir Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, Enoch Powell, Lew and Jenny Hoad, and the family and friends of T. E. Lawrence . I justify most of this activity on grounds that I was serving the public interest, ...

Shirley and Pipsi... in Their Own Words

Shirley J. Hall

... an American artist, approached me and offered me the post of tutor to his three children for the forthcoming school year in September. (He had seen a show which I had written and directed, in which Lew and Jenny Hoad's children had acted ...

Love Loss and Oranges

Clive Sheldon

... his journey, accompanied by the ghost of his dead wife and that of the enigmatic David, a dead drug addict, the three of them trying to bring some sort of sense into Ben's chaotic, troubled world. The author Cover design: Jenny Hoad © U.K. ...

Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura

Caroline Seebohm

“The boys always wanted to push on to the next city,” Jenny Hoad remembered, “ and the women wanted to stop. The wives would get very bored. They'd have to go to the stadium and watch two singles and doubles each night, often going to ...

A Memoir: Looking for the Good Life and Other Stories of ...

Charlene H. Grafton

Names like Louise Brough, Shirley Fry, Angela Mortimer Buxton, Betty Pratt, Jenny Hoad, Helen Perez, and Anna Maria Estella were some of the wellknown women international players. Russell Seymour, from South Africa, was my doubles ...

Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture

Davina Jackson

... in Palo Alto, California; driving from New York to see the Amish villages of Pennsylvania; staying overnight with the Marquis of Bath at Longleat Castle in Wiltshire, England; and staying at Lew and Jenny Hoad's tennis ranch in Spain.

The New York Times Biographical Service

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The Grandeur That Was Hoad Lew Hoad in his prime. He was twice Wimbledon champion. TOM HOFFMAN & FAMILY Rising Tuition x 12 Equals Major. Sport* of The Time* It should be a time for tradition. When »h* Unite! States Open tennis ...

The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas

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... Sund wall; Mrs. John Sundwall ; Glenn L. Alt, e'16 ; Har old D. Smith, e'22 ; H. E. Hastings, jr'12-13 : Mrs Viola R. Hastings; Louise Green Hoad, '97-98; W. C Hoad, e'9H; L. T. Eugene Ness, '21-23; H. C. Coffman '15; Walter L. Harris, f'13.

Rod Laver: An autobiography

Rod Laver

I also pay tribute to their wives: Helen Cooper, Joy Emerson, Thea Neale, Jenny Hoad, Angie Newcombe, Sue Roche, Wilma Rosewall, Jean Sedgman and Pat Stolle. A cheer, too, to nonAussies Charlie and Shireen Pasarell, Butch and ...

Golden Boy: The Life and Times of Lew Hoad, a Tennis Legend

Larry Hodgson

Taking as its starting point Pete Sampras' visible distress as he learns of the death of his idol, the book traces Hoad's progress, from humble beginnings in a Sydney Suburb to his inexorable rise to sporting legend.

You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

Jenny Lawson

At her signings, fans show up with printouts of these drawings for Jenny to autograph. And inevitably they ask her when will she publish a whole book of them. That moment has arrived. You Are Here is something only Jenny could create.

Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet

Joseph B. Herring

Kooken told this story to her daughter Louise Green Hoad many years after Kenekuk had died. It was not until the 1940s that Hoad retold the events surrounding the prophet's death in her book Kickapoo Indian Trails (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton ...

Shooting from the Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in ...

Mike Lupica

"I doubt that," Lew Hoad said with a smile. In a day at Wimbledon which centered around a young star named Tracy Austin and a champion named Billie Jean King , it seemed right that Lew Hoad should be on the grounds of the All- England ...

Unforgettable

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Callie Vernon has never shared much with Jenny Humphrey, her younger, rosy-cheeked roommate at elite Waverly Academy, but when Jenny steals Callie's long-term boyfriend, Easy Walsh, Callie feels little guilt about kissing him behind Jenny's ...

The Shadow and the Rose

The Shadow on the Mountain

Jenny's journey

Sheila White Samton

Jenny imagines sailing across the ocean to visit her friend Maria.

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays ...

M. Merck

Jenny Sundén, “What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg,” Feminist Media Studies 2 (2001); also Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson Elm, “Introduction,” in Malin Sveningsson Elm and Jenny Sundén, ...

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some ...

Jenny Mollen

I Like You Just the Way I Am is about not doing the right thing—about indulging your inner crazy-person. It is Jenny when she's not trying to impress anyone or come across as a responsible, level-headed member of society.

Fast Animals (Enhanced Edition): A Children's Book About the ...

Jenny Lillystone

A Children's Book About the Speed of Animals Jenny Lillystone. |FAST "A- ***... . - - %. - * * %: * '%'. ' '''''', * ''' ''' - *: Jenny Lilly stone Enhance C. E.Cition Table of Contents Fast Animals List ofVideos Famous Animal Racers. Front Cover.