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Penny Black

Penny Black

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

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

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 ...
The New York Times Biographical Service

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

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.
LIFE

LIFE

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With all this natural equipment Lew Hoad could be a tremendous player if a smart teacher could get through to him. Promoter Kramer, a good businessman and one of the game's shrewdest tacticians as a player, weighed all these factors ...
The Best Australian Essays 1999

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 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 ...
Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture

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 Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas

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.
Lew Welch

Lew Welch

Rod Phillips

"Biography and criticism of Beat poet Lew Welch (1926-1971)"--Provided by publisher.
Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet

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 ...
American Modeler: The Best in Model Planes, Radio Control, ...

American Modeler: The Best in Model Planes, Radio Control, ...

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Lew Andrews had put one in Guillow's Nieuport 27 (also .010 power). Lew also fitted the new midget Otarion toggle switch — in the cockpit where the headrest would normally be located. Every year Roy Cox introduces a real show-stopper.
Best Plays

Best Plays

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Principals engaged — Ruby Asquith Lew Christensen Marie-Jeanne Todd Bolender Lorna London Erick Hawkins Misses Campbell, Heater, Tompkins and Vallon. POCAHONTAS A ballet-legend in one act by Lew Christensen; music by Elliott ...
Burns Mantle Yearbook

Burns Mantle Yearbook

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Principals engaged — Ruby Asquith Lew Christensen Mane-Jeanne Todd Bolender Lorna London Erick Hawkins Misses Campbell, Heater, Tompkins and Vallon. POCAHONTAS A ballet-legend in one act by Lew Christensen; music by Elliott ...
The Rise of the Seminoles: FSU Football Under Bobby Bowden

The Rise of the Seminoles: FSU Football Under Bobby Bowden

Lew Freedman

Through the writing talents of Lew Freedman, one of only two reporters covering FSU during Bowden’s time, this book follows the incredible journey the Seminoles have taken through history.
Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Bryan Clark Green

Information courtesy of Pamela Hemenway Simpson. Chapter I - Lost Domestic Architecture ADAMS-VAN LEW HOUSE, 231 1 East Grace Street, Richmond Scott, Houses of Richmond 68-74; Elizabeth Louisa Van Lew, Album, 1845— 1897, ...
Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

Lesley L. Coffin

Lew Ayres interview by James D'Arc, 1978, p. 9. 11. “What Has Life Taught You?, ” Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, p. E2. 12. Hedda Hopper, “Hedda Hopper's Hollywood,” Toledo Blade, September 13, 1950,p.42. 13. “What Has Life Taught  ...
The North American Veterinarian

The North American Veterinarian

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... The following is taken from Treatment Kickapoo Indian Trails, by Louise Green Hoad (The Cax- ton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho) : "When I was teaching at the mission I rode over to an Indian village to see one of their men who had been ...
Modern Veterinary Practice

Modern Veterinary Practice

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Wound The following is taken from Treatment Kickapoo Indian Trails, by Louise Green Hoad (The Cax- ton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho) : "When I was teaching at the mission I rode over to an Indian village to see one of their men who had ...
The Bulletin

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 ...

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