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Among the Allies' top planning soldiers John Dill found friends-General Marshall, "Hap" Arnold, the Navy's "Ernie" King-and bound them close to him by his easy wit, his Jim Farley-like ability to remember first names and nicknames, his all-round proficiency as a soldier and a staff officer...
Royal Exiles. War has spared the sport because it is by no means a young man's game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
Huggins bowled for the Trinidad Club, the present holder of the championship , cup. An all-round dependable of the Trinidad team is Joseph Cameron, who with Hackett and Holder was among the pioneers of Harlem cricket some 30 years ago. Cameron and his brother Henry, operators of an employment agency, are also leaders in the socially desirable Royal Exiles cricket club, which is not in the leagues...
...each of these battles Voronov helped to chart the blueprint, for he was now a member of the seven-man Supreme Command. Each blueprint gave his cannon an honored place. But Voronov was now more than an artilleryman; he was a top-rate, all-round field commander...
...recent years Secretary Hassett has subbed frequently for Steve Early as press secretary, especially on the grueling train trips which Early dislikes. But his prime value to the President has been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...