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When The Joyful Condemned opens, Rene has just lured a rookie cop to her room and run off with his trousers. And for the rest of the story, Rene and The Joyful Condemned tumble along to much the same tough, brawling pace as the opener. Kylie Tennant, a 41-year-old Australian woman novelist, appears to know the sharp side of Sydney almost as well as she knows how to turn a sharp sentence. Sample: "The waitresses were elderly, hard women who carried food reluctantly, but in the hope it might poison someone...
...gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers try to burglarize their boss's home, a shrewd snapshot of middle-class ladies cooing over the tough little delinquents they are eager to save...
...Novelist Tennant's young toughies have an indestructible suspicion of the people who run things. Says one of them: "I get fed up with people being nice and me not able to do a thing about it." Devoid of ordinary morals, they are convinced that all they need, for happiness, is a little luck. The cops are no great worry. As Big Rene says: "They can't kill you. Have to fill in too many forms...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...
...settled down to work with an awesome determination. Smashing her way to victory, she swept unchecked through the Grass Courts Singles titles at Surbiton and Manchester. It was big news whenever she dropped a set. Playing the all-out attacking game-volleys, overheads, attack with the serve-that Coach Tennant had drilled her on all winter, she moved into the early rounds at Wimbledon with machine-like precision...