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Bachelor's Degree. There, his dogged fighting qualities, his persistence and determination, and growing control over his hard hitting paid off. He beat Harry Likas and Vic Seixas (a higher ranked player) in the early rounds. In the semi-final and final matches (against Earl Cochell and Ed Moylan), Savitt dropped the first two sets, and was on the verge of defeat. He won both matches. That worked wonders with his game, and with his belief in himself. It was, in a sense, his bachelor's degree in tennis...
...only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing the crudity of the new rich; a dilettante who sponsors opera stars for the sake of art and, sometimes, for the sake of his puny passions...
...wrestling captain, took a split decision from Bob Girand, a man he knocked out last fall in an amateur bout. He gained his advantage in the second and third rounds after fighting cautiously for the first two minutes. In the semifinals he won a unanimous decision over Ed Moylan, a former Navy fighter...
...curly, cherubic Moylan Sisters, Peggy Joan, 5, and Marianne, 7, are radio veterans (two years) who chirrup in close, cricket harmony Sunday afternoons over NBC for Thrive, a dog food ("We feed our doggie Thrive, he's very much alive-o"). Last Sunday Peggy Joan and Marianne put their brown heads together and told the world just what they wanted from Santa...
...anti-fascist novels, written at 3,000 miles removed from fascist reality, are too often the sort which make a Führer out of every bully. James T. Farrell's Jew-hating young Brooklyn Irishman, a bellicose introvert who sells Father Moylan's Christian Justice, is a convincing individual in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade (Vanguard, $1), but the tract-like limitations of the story are implicit in the original title: Tommy Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story...