Word: dissecting
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...endless gossip of the lockerroom, where the players dissect their matches with the fanaticism of shot-by-shot golfers-and remember the precise scores of each match for years-several theories are advanced on just how to beat Savitt. Bill Talbert, 32-year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...
Neumann dreads large classes. Once, lecturing before a large group of students at Yale, he had occasion to criticize John Gunther's pseudo-Freudian explanations of famous men and events and went on to dissect thoroughly the famous author. At the end of the lecture, a sweet young thing who had been sitting in the back row of the spacious room came up and introduced herself as Mrs. Gunther. The experience left Neumann wary...