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...noon, with the sun blazing down, Australia's best bowler let go with the first ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a baseball pitch (about 65 m.p.h.), hit the ground just in front of the batsman, where he would have to hit it on the pickup. England's lead-off man blocked it off to one side. The fourth of the Test Matches, the World Series of cricket...
...like baseball, its fastball bowlers, its control bowlers and those who specialize in slow, tricky teasers ("googlies"). The bowler gets up speed with a run of from, 10 to 50 feet, must not bend his elbow when delivering the ball. His chief aim is to knock down the batsman's wicket (see chart) for an out. The batsman, who defends the wicket, seldom tries to swat the ball out of the park (though over the fence, "a boundary," is an automatic six runs). He hopes to whack out a low grasscutter, since a ball caught...
...Times's letters column Lieut. Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d'Arcy House, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he: "The hat possesses a classic (or dome-of-St. Paul's) crown, five inches high but unwaisted, but the brim, which is a full two and a half inches wide, is perfectly flat save for an inverted gutter at the extreme edge.... I am wondering if it is an example of individual taste...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...divorced person, not even her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Windsor. David himself could not break down that royal taboo when he tried two months ago. Instead, Mama, whose own taste in hats leans to the conservative, made him change his sporty green porkpie for a sober bowler...