Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time two lance corporals of the army's Royal Engineers, with their officers' encouragement, had bested Dagnan's mark. Then civilians began hitting the road. Among them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey...
After steaming into a Manhattan pier on the liner Queen Elizabeth, Uganda's formidable King George Rukidi III of Toro, 54, father of 27 children by quite a few wives, was heartily greeted by U.N. Undersecretary Ralph Bunche. Decked out in his black bowler, black jacket and white ekanzu, King George proved to be quite a wit and character. Supreme native ruler in Britain's East African protectorate, His Majesty agreed with newsmen that the morning was quite chilly, then jovially parted his robe to disclose a suit of long underwear. Dr. Bunche will plot George...
Married. Gene Krupa, aging (50) jazz drummer, famed for his wide, colorful range of techniques and his difficulties with the law over marijuana matters; and Patricia Bowler, 25, a secretary from Springfield, Mass.; he for the second time (the first Mrs. Krupa died in 1955), she for the first; in Yonkers...
...wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
Another mainstay of the Club is Jim Wolfenson, who is the wicket-keeper. The Club sorely misses Barry Eastment of Australia, the vice-captain of last year's team. This year's captain, John Frith, termed him "more than competent," both as an opening batsman and as a bowler. Lowe is filling the gap as batsman quite well, however, and Youll has stepped in as bowler...