Word: savitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the week he had watched Mai, who had never tried bowling before he went to Forest Hills, go out for an evening's entertainment and bowl a respectable 200. He had also watched Mai on the tennis courts, whipping America's awkward in-and-outer Dick Savitt in straight sets. This was one week when Mai Anderson's luck seemed all good...
...Denmark's mustached Kurt Nielsen, 26, sometime madcap of the amateur-tennis circuit, minded his manners all the way through the U.S. indoor championships, foiled Dick Savitt's comeback in the semifinals, overpowered California's Herb Flam in the finals...
...began to produce the brand of tennis that had made him a gallery favorite all week long. In the quarter-finals the luck of the draw had sent him against quick-tempered Dick Savitt, 29, back in the big time after a four-year layoff. And Savitt had forced him to play the best tennis of his career to pull out the match. As he faced Hoad it seemed improbable that he could be that good again. But he was. Watching him took spectators back to the golden days of prewar tournaments, to Tilden and Vines and Budge, to Perry...
...Houston, 1951 Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt, playing his second tennis tournament in two years, upset current Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas in a semifinal match, went on to win the River Oaks tennis tournament from Hamilton Richardson...
...lover start by disagreeing about marriage in general, end by discussing their own particular situations in front of the enlisted personnel. Everything ends in a good, low brawl. Final shot: the chastened chaplain, a week later, seated primly in his empty auditorium, listening to the efforts of the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet...