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MAYBE 'mEY DIDN'T SAY IT JER DEN ••• What, Earwigs, is happening to Prestige of the Press? For simply years, the Gridiron Club, to which the Mightiest Presspersons of All belonged, was the ne plus ultra of the Big Time. Women panted to join. The Mighty of the Land vied to speak there. Saturday night, for the big winter dinner, Bob Dole, Jim Baker, Ron Nessen, Andrew Young, Jack Watson and HBmilton Jordan were scheduled speak ers. Earwigs: Jor~. Jimmy Carter's absolute right hand, not only didn't show: He didn't even call to say why not. Is this the end of the Media Establishment as we · know it? Stay tuned, for heaven's sake. PLEASE RON, EVERYBODY'S his childhood sweetheart Juliana, the for STARING! ••• Even the tired sodden mer Hungarian electronics worker. He's seekers of the truth from the Other Paper / .. ·, 33, she's 38. Inches that is, but that kind were astounded. 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It's hard candy with carbon snubbed by the beautiful people that he's all sounds too lowlife to be true, but there ance, some of them actually in s~::quins. dioxide inside. Crack it with your teeth going around the Big Apple in bright red you have 'it. Then, Earwigs, if you can bear this, the and it pops noisily while dissolving, Vou boots and a beige cable knit sweater, Ear BIG NEWS ON THAT LITTLE WED entire weddin!J will be re-enacted at may not think this is hot stuff, but it's all hears. Or maybe it's just part of his new DING ••• You've all heard, of course, every subsequent circus performance of over the Wall Street Journal. Now every acting career. (He just finished "Murder that Michu, the smallest man iil the the season! Ear's hunting for a teeny tiny one will know who just cnt~t smoking. By Death.") ~people who are still world. is fillflly going to tie the knot with wok.{ , . ,;... ' ..-4 Big Tennis Racket Is a Tyro's Hope For ... 15'-Love at First Smite By Michael Putney run reached sporting-goods stores and pro FROM PRINCETON, N.J. shops last January. But McCllntlck says that most of those rackets were sold, and "THE RACKET," the U.S. Tennis As the stores are clamoring for more. "Our sociation's glossary of technical sales are abOut 42 to 45 per cent ahead of terms explains dryly, "is the lm our wildest projections," McClintick re· plement used to strike the ball." That's all. There's not a word abOut the proper slze, ports, "and the acceptance has been gOOd all over-in the States, canada, and Eu shape, or weight of the tennls racket, al rope." though the USTA rules define down to the inch the slze of the court and down to the Undoubtedly some measure Of the rack· thousandth of an inch the slze Of the ball. et's sudden success can be traced to ten nis' trendy status. The USTA estlmates that The Prince racket may change an that some 7 mUllen Americans took up the -and the way that thOusands of Americans game last year, bringing to 40 mllllon the play tennis. The Prince, produced here bY number who pray "from time to time." Prince Manufacturing, Inc., has a head Withln that number, the USTA says, there's only slightly smaller than Jimmy Connors'. a hard-core group Of 23 mlllion who play at Its hlttlng area ls half again as. large as a least three times a week. Many of them are conventional racket, and the "sweet spot" wllllng, even eager, to spend $75 to $80 is almost tour tim~s as large. That makes (the cost of a strung Prince> if it'll give the Prince the 747 of rackets, the magnum their game a ntt: Or lf the Prince slmply to everyone else's flfth, a Brobdingnagian becomes this season's "in" racket. blessing for players With Lllllputian talents. That huge head has also ma<;le the Prince Carl Anderson, chairman of the USTA's the hottest thing to hit tennls since the yel equipment · committee, observes: "Last low ball. year it was composltlon [rackets], two Despite the Prince's $65 price for the years ago it was aluminum, before that it was steel. A lot of those metal rackets are frame alone, it's selllng faster than tickets in closets tOday, but that won't prevent the to a Connors-Arthur Ashe grudge match. Prince from being popular thls year." "It's sweeping the country at a rate we would not have expected," exults Howard The racket is already a hit in status· Head, the designer ot metal skls and ten conscious and tennls-crazy washington, nls rackets who also designed the Prince. D.C., although no more than three dozen "It's very exciting." Prlnce President Bob rackets have been sold there. Presidential McClintick won't reveal hOw many rackets Press Secretary Ron Nessen has been seen have been sold since the first production Please Turn to Page 10, Column -+ i. Prince Racket Lets Tyros Hope . I=' It11 Be 15-Love at First Smite Continued From Page One join-<>! a conventional racket. TO·make I1 tend you can play well with a board • wielding one on the White House tenn1a that sweet spot part of the usable hit if you've got a good stroke. I once 1 court (although he recently went back ting area, for all players, he simply en· saw Bobby Riggs beat a guy with a i to his old raclr.et), and syndicated col- larged the racket head, using a high· broom." . umnlst Art Buchwald raves about his. strength, lightweight aluminum frame. "It's fantastic," says Buchwald. "It's Head made another important dis· 'The Finest,' Says Budge really helped the net game. Fortunate covery when he devised the stringing · Neither Riggs nor any other name ly, my tennis Is so bad that no one has pattern for the Prince. One reason that player has yet endorsed the Prince, al· really raised toQ much hell with me for tennis balls feel and act dead when thOugh McClintick says he is now nego using·it." they're hit on the outside strings is tiating with four world-class players Beyond fashion, a larger measure ·because those strings are spaced as for the honor. And he proudly displays 1 or the Prince's success can be traced evenly as the center strings. But the a letter from the legendary Don Budge to the fact that It closely matches ball responds fairly uniformly if the lauding the ·Prince as "the finest racket Its advertising claims. The racket does outside strings are farther apart and I have ever played with." have a significantly larger hitting area, the inside strings are closer together. a bigger sweet spot, and-strung fairly In fact, the closer the strings in the For at least one high-ranking USTA tight-shows mark.ed resistance to center, the higher the "coefficient of official, however, the Prince ls a royal twisting In the hand, even when the ball restitution." That means you can hit pain. "The only person who is going Is hit way off the racket's center. Most the ball a ltttle faster with an on to benefit from that racket is an ex Important, the Prince feels like a tennis center hit with the Prince than with a perienced· player, an accurate player racket. It's no longer than a conven regular racket. who already hits the ball down low on the racket face," the official grumbles. tional racket, weighs no more, is beau- Wbo Will Beneftt? ' tifully balanced, and doesn't offer more "Logic tells me that it helps the per· wind resistance than any other racket.