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...last year that many clergymen rescheduled evensong services in order to avoid losing their congregations. An estimated 17 million viewers tuned in each week. Hostesses had to schedule dinner parties around the series. Sunday night bingo attendance slumped. It even became something of an international obsession. In New Zealand, cricket matches began an hour earlier. In Yugoslavia, where the series was aired, new editions of Galsworthy's works have been brought out in Serbian and Croatian. Even Russia will not escape: Soviet dubbers are now at work on the series so that it can be shown there next year...
TUCKER'S COUNTRYSID:, by George Selden, illustrated by Garth Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $3.95). In a sequel to The Cricket in Times Square, a citified cat and mouse visit a cricket and help him contend with dogs, bulldozers and other scourges of the countryside. The black and white illustrations are Garth Williams at his best...
...Madrid, how confounded you would be. Last week the annual Fair of San Isidro was at its peak. Yet two of Spam's best matadors were not even there, although that 16-day burst of bullfighting is the World Series, Davis Cup competition and The Ashes of cricket all folded into one. El Cordobés and Palomo Linares had defied Los Siete Grandes, the seven biggest ring owner-agents, who henceforth intend to control the sport by setting fees and scheduling matadors. For that, the pair had been banished, cast out to fight before the drunks and girls...
...native of Bombay, India, Nayar grew up next door to the Cricket Club of India, where he taught himself to play squash while in secondary school. After receiving instruction, he broke precedent by entering the Indian Junior and Men's championships, simultaneously--and winning them both...
...Cricket Bats. A few shops now cater to left-handers who either cannot or will not adjust to a right-handed world. One of the most interesting-run by a righthander, surprisingly-is Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. in London's West End. Its director, William Gruby, 39, opened his store late last year after giving a dinner party at which he and his wife found that their four guests were all left-handed and all perfectly willing to complain bitterly about the nuisances of life in a right-handed world. Doing market research, Gruby found that shop clerks treated...