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...general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen. A fine private with his bayonet fixed...
...Sahl, he discovered that he was not for Britain. Telly viewers thought him too mild and too American. One critic complained that Sahl had not even made fun of cricket or British pubs-obviously two unforgivable omissions...
...name of the whisky to J. & B. on finding that Justerini & Brooks was too much of a mouthful for U.S. bartenders and elbow benders. Tatham, now 63, has passed active management to Co-Managing Director Ralph Cobbold, 55, a brush-mustached, ex-Coldstream Guards officer who was captain of cricket at Eton and won his blue at Cambridge. Though a four-way fight for first place in the U.S. Scotch market is shaping up. Cobbold is certain that there is one tactic he will not use: price cutting. "We insist," says he grandly, ''on being the most expensive...
AWOL from the Oxford University cricket pitch went its bang-on, "blue"-aspiring batsman, First Lieut. Pete Dowkins, 23, Army's 1958 All-America halfback and currently a Rhodes scholar. His destination: the States and a month's-end marriage in West Point's Cadet Chapel to Judi Wright, 22, a University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a U.S. Air Force schoolmarm...
...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...