Before rounding off his life with an autobiography and beginning to haggle with a publisher, many a great man waits until he nears three score and ten. Last week Mrs. Helen Wills Moody of San Francisco published her autobiography. Fifteen-Thirty*15 for the age when she won her first National championship (junior), 30 for the age when she began to write her book.
Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct...
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