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...batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That's cricket...
...finally, at the ripe old age of 40, to be elected governor of New York. ("Some belated Fenians came up to sound me as to what my attitude would be if they attempted an invasion of Canada. I explained . . . that I should promptly call out the militia and clap them all in jail...
...note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...
...Vassar girl takes the various traditional requirements in stride, claiming they are ridiculous, but following them nevertheless: whenever the senior marching song, "Salve," is sung, the undergraduates clap; all undergraduates, except the seniors, who wear their caps and gowns, wear white to Convocation and to the first meeting of the College Government Association: the selected sophomores carry the daisy chain at every commencement; and the freshmen choose a class tree annually, marking their liberation form the ignominy of freshman duties...
McGuire's jet planes are always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...