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Althea Gibson dies at 76
CNN/SI ^ | 09/28/03

Posted on 09/28/2003 9:33:52 AM PDT by socal_parrot

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Gibson was the first black to compete in the U.S. championships, in 1950, and at Wimbledon, in 1951. However, it wasn't until several years later that she began to win major tournaments, including the Wimbledon and U.S. championships in 1957 and 1958, the French Open, and three doubles titles at Wimbledon (1956-58).


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KEYWORDS: althea; altheagibson; black; gibson; obituary; tennis; wimbledon
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To: Madame Dufarge
She was a dignified lady. RIP.

Yes she was, I kept hoping she would make a comeback.

LOL, glad to see I am not the only one getting up there, not complaining mind you....... I am always saying, I am glad I am not young in todays world.

21 posted on 09/28/2003 12:16:09 PM PDT by Great Dane (You can smoke just about everywhere in Denmark.)
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To: Hildy; blackie
Yup, seems that bashing x42 (in any non-related thread or context) passes for intelligent conversation here a bit too much. Definitely has lowered my impression of FR.
22 posted on 09/28/2003 12:19:56 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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To: Ready4Freddy; Hildy; blackie
If any of you are planning a longwinded Opus, please put it on your own webpage and use the excerpt button when you post it.

That way anyone who is interested in your maudlin crybaby meanderings can find them and you won't waste (very much) bandwidth.

23 posted on 09/28/2003 3:24:17 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
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To: Ronin
Why the hell did you address this to me?
24 posted on 09/28/2003 3:28:47 PM PDT by Hildy (SUCKER: Short-sighted Uncompromising Conservative Kool-Aid-drinking Elitist Republican.)
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To: Hildy
How can a thread about Althea Gibson turn into an anti-Clinton thread. It's why I'm getting tired of FR.

Sounds like you are gearing up for an Opus to me.

25 posted on 09/28/2003 3:30:55 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
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To: Ronin
If it were, and I chose to write an opus, I wouldn't give a rat's ass how you felt about it. Stay away from me.
26 posted on 09/28/2003 3:31:43 PM PDT by Hildy (SUCKER: Short-sighted Uncompromising Conservative Kool-Aid-drinking Elitist Republican.)
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To: blackie
I will, however, apologize to Blackie, I shouldn't have implied he was getting ready to post one.

Apologies, Blackie.
27 posted on 09/28/2003 3:33:15 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
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To: Darksheare; cyborg
It's because of their pact with the evil one.

Oh come on, Hillary wasn't even in college yet when Castro took power! ;)

28 posted on 09/28/2003 3:34:22 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Ronin
I know where you were coming from ~ some get a little touchy ~ maybe hitting a nerve does that. :):)
29 posted on 09/28/2003 3:35:34 PM PDT by blackie
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To: Timesink
But apparently she was alive when Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest...
30 posted on 09/28/2003 3:35:55 PM PDT by cyborg (dankie jou)
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To: cyborg
Same thing can be said of people like Josephine Baker,etc. born too early...

True. And many people seem to think that L'il Kim is something new. Josephine Baker was something else!


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31 posted on 09/28/2003 3:38:30 PM PDT by rdb3 (One shot is not enough. It takes an uzi to move me.)
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To: blackie
Ya think? :)
32 posted on 09/28/2003 3:38:43 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
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To: Ronin
Yep ~ :-/
33 posted on 09/28/2003 3:41:53 PM PDT by blackie
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To: Ronin; blackie
Good thing I didn't read past post 10 before posting number 28! Ha ha!
34 posted on 09/28/2003 3:44:59 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: rdb3
My father MET Josephine Baker in her day. Loved my father because he was, a classy white man, as my dad put it. I loved Lynn Whitfield in the movie Josephine Baker Story. After that movie, I idolized JB. When I went to Paris this year, I knew exactly how she felt when she first set her feet down in Paris. Paris is no where near as nice as when JB was there.

I actually like Lil Kim. I like her more than Brittany Spears who is a complete phoney.
35 posted on 09/28/2003 3:45:41 PM PDT by cyborg (dankie jou)
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To: socal_parrot
Sad news for tennis fans...
36 posted on 09/28/2003 3:46:27 PM PDT by Principled
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To: Principled
"No one would say anything to me because of the way I carried myself," Gibson said. "Tennis was a game for ladies and gentleman, and I conducted myself in that manner."

*** Classy... wish this attitude would experience a renaissance in tennis.

Her finances also declined, and Gibson isolated herself as she struggled on Social Security, not wanting anyone to see her condition.

*** Not only was she classy but humble, not wanting a handout. Wish more people would take this kind of attitude with defines the American spirit.

Letters with cash and checks also began to pour in, including one with two $100 bills from Mariann de Swardt, a ranked South African tennis player.

*** South African tennis players get paid nothing. This would be a kingly sum in the RSA rand. Amazing how good people get lost/pushed aside for worthless causes. This is like Rosa Parks who lived in a little shack of an apartment.

Wish some of the sports personalities would exhibit such character.



37 posted on 09/28/2003 3:59:04 PM PDT by cyborg (dankie jou)
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To: Timesink
But.. but.. she could have been practicing!
*chuckle*
38 posted on 09/28/2003 4:10:58 PM PDT by Darksheare (And something just for the DU lurkers (_*_) You been mooned!)
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To: cyborg
Classy... wish this attitude would experience a renaissance in tennis

I wish so as well. I'm involved with a local high school tennis team. It can be appauling the behaviour one sees.

39 posted on 09/28/2003 4:12:58 PM PDT by Principled
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To: Darksheare
STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The jokes... I think I'm going to go jog now so I can release the frustration of not putting forth my best material (out of respect for the dead).
40 posted on 09/28/2003 4:16:07 PM PDT by cyborg (dankie jou)
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