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...toward secrecy is not. Silver-haired and elegant, Steptoe is a pioneer in the use of laparoscopy, a technique for exploring the abdomen and observing the reproductive tract by means of a long, thin telescope equipped with a fiber optics light. He is also an impeccable dresser, enjoys watching cricket and is a fine organist. In the words of a colleague, he is "a man of character and determination who if someone is speaking nonsense is perfectly willing to say so." His partner Edwards, the father of five daughters, is no less accomplished in his own field, the physiology...
...listen to his tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's." Neither writer mocks; both stories are formal. Both will have readers clued to their seats. But face it, old fellow, your speech is pathetically easy to echo...
...time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball over a practice net. Snapping the event was Elizabeth Taylor's son Christopher Wilding, a professional photographer, whose shots of his former stepdad may, or may not, go into the family album...
Murray maintained a huge correspondence, sometimes writing 40 letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought...
Last week the ICC warned that Packer's players had until Oct. 1 to return to the fold, or be banned from officially sanctioned competition-a punishment equivalent in cricket to excommunication from the church. The threat brought immediate results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...