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They were the finest tennis players in the world gathered to contest the most coveted prize in the sport. But for the two weeks of the 94th Wimbledon Championships, they resembled nothing so much as disappointed children kept in at recess, staring wistfully from clubhouse windows as the glowering skies dumped near record rains and even a hailstorm on the hallowed courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club...
This Monday afternoon an umpire at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will peer down from his chair in Centre Court and in clipped tones inquire, "Gentlemen, are you ready?" A pause, and then: "Play!" Thus the 94th Wimbledon Tennis Championships are scheduled to begin. At one end of that storied court will stand Bjorn Borg, defending champion, the only modern player to win four straight Wimbledon titles ? and, if the oddsmakers are correct, the first man to win five. Not quite ready yet for tea and reverie, he returns to Wimbledon seeking to etch even more...
...ambitious parents, Roth was already a stage and vaudeville star when she began her Hollywood career at 18, but her professional success was punctuated by repeated personal disasters, including recurring drinking bouts, fits of depression and failed marriages. Her book's popularity helped launch a final comeback ("My 94th," she quipped) that got her nightclub dates and Broadway and film roles...
Over the past 20 years or so, for example, the McLean County Historical Society has been keeping an eye on an object in its care known as the McNulta time capsule. The McNulta in question, a Bloomington man, was a Civil War general in the 94th Illinois Volunteers. The time capsule was an etched glass bottle, seven inches high and sealed with a broken stopper, containing several mysterious thin packages wrapped in cloth. A notification tucked into its base read: "Souvenirs of the meeting of the Society of the Army of Tennessee. Held at Chicago November 1879. To be kept...
...94th and 95th Congresses Kennedy unsuccessfully tried to railroad criminal code revisions through the Senate and House. His bill (the off-shoot of S.1) was labeled "reform" and was duly accepted in the Senate by an overwhelmingly majority (72-15) in January...