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...venal. Dr. Terwilliker (the sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy's frequent co-star and, for 58 years, her husband), is a complacent fellow who takes ages to take sides with Bart against...
...have a lot of confidence in my racket skills, in my racket ability,” Broadbent said. “I feel like I was limiting myself by just playing a very straightforward, down-the-line game instead of hitting a lot of crosscourts and opening the court...
Broadbent jumped ahead early, winning the first game 9-6 and controlling the front court to pull ahead 8-3 in the second as Illingworth became increasingly frustrated, spiking his racket even before he tinned at the end of a long point...
...recovered to take a 5-3 lead. After falling behind 6-5, Broadbent regained the serve by barely grazing the front wall as Illingworth prepared for a deep shot and ran the score to 8-5. Illingworth won a handout, but then lost the next point, throwing his racket and discrediting whispers in the crowd that he didn’t care about the outcome of the match because Harvard had already locked up the victory in the process...
...throwing my racket at balls,” Whitman said. “I was running so hard and I was trying to beat him the way I know I should play squash, and then in the second half of the second game and the third game, I had to resort to just chasing balls because I wasn’t beating him. I just said to myself, ‘If you’re going to beat me, you’re going to have to be here...