Gorgeous Gussie Moran

My largely uniformed local newspaper today carried two obituaries. The first and more important one covered the death of George Drake, a retired deputy sheriff who had graduated from a local high school. The second and lesser obituary, reprinted from the NY Times, covered the career of Gussie Moran, the first major tennis player to wear a white short skirt with lace-trimmed panties onto the court at Wimbledon. It was all terribly shocking and made her, for a few years, the most famous tennis player in the world. That happened while I was in high school.  Moran was a decent player--at one point she ranked number four in America. After that, from what I've read, she had a rough time of it, lived "in near squalor," and now has died forgotten at 89.