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...statesman who keeps the press at bay behind a barrier at Parliament House but cosies up to the millionaire talkback radio kings for a nice chat. For voters, it's a choice between two indelible archetypes: Labor's "too fast, too furious" man at the wheel, and a Bradman-era P. M. in the prime of his life...
...centuries in test-match cricket places Australian captain Steve Warre on a par with Sir Donald Bradman as the most successful batsman in his country's history...
...Wicket Ways An icon to fans in his native India, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to reach 10,000 one-day runs. The only record the modest 28-year-old is in no danger of grabbing is the 99.94 Test average of Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, who died this year...
...late Sir Donald Bradman was the greatest cricketer of all time [MILESTONES, March 12] and had the respect of all who played the game, with him and after him. He changed the face of cricket. There are not many nondignitaries whose family receives a personal and private message of condolence from the Queen of England, but that is what happened to Bradman's. PETER HATLEY Sydney, Australia...
...TIME's Australia edition recently devoted its cover to an obituary of the legendary prewar batsman Sir Donald Bradman, noting his significance to Australia lay not simply in his unmatched ability to amass runs no matter how fearsome the bowling he faced, but in the ability of those storied exploits to lift his nation's spirits through the tribulations of the Depression and World War II. As writer Thomas Kenneally put it, "When we spoke of literary figures we spoke of Englishmen, but when we spoke of cricket we spoke of our own. No Australian had written 'Paradise Lost...