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...European campaigning ("minor league stuff"), Savitt had only a so-so record, actually lost six of seven matches (on clay) to Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup veteran. The losses did little to shake Dick's new-found faith in his ability to win, but they did create a jinx. Drobny beat him again in the quarter-finals of the French championships, a tournament that Savitt really wanted to win. He began to fret, decided he was over-tennised, and practically stopped playing for the whole month before Wimbledon...
...playroom on Christmas night; and a show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that are much the gayest, most stylish, least wooden things in the show...
...account has been working in physics for 15 years. According to reports from Prague, Richter was a Sudetenland German who got his doctorate in 1935 from the German University of Prague. He studied under Professor Philipp G. Frank (now at Harvard), who remembers him vaguely as a so-so student. Beyond this, he left no trace in the records of science. To most physicists his claims sounded as suspicious as his credentials...
Friday afternoon, as if some super-charged fairy-godmother had waved the wand, girls who looked so-so start to look good and girls who looked good, look great. They become ladies all over. Sunday night, they become pumpkins again...
...front of this better-than-average array, Zitrides, a former line coach himself, can assemble only a so-so, and definitely slow, forward wall...