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...dodge backwards among other bells). Eight bells have been rung to their full "extent" (40,320 changes) only once: in 1751, by relays of 13 bell ringers working for 20 hours straight. But modern competition rules, set by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers as carefully as cricket regulations, forbid the use of relays: only one man to a bell, and he must stick to her (bells, to ringers, are always female) without interruption. Under these conditions, the best that, has been done so far is 21,600 changes (time: 12 hrs. 56 min.), rung...
Pakistan's Premier Mohammed Ali, a cricket player who also likes baseball, reached the U.S. on a state visit last week too late for the World Series but much impressed by the Cleveland Indians' defeat. "You have proved to me," quipped Ali, whose country is at odds with Nehru's nation, "that the Indians are overrated...
...American Senator watching the cricket match that gives The Final Test its name describes one of the game's incidents as a high pop fly to the infield. But he could well be describing both pictures now at the Kenmore; not in a long time has such impressive talent combined in so disappointing an evening...
...CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
...mother's ancestry. While the boys set to work practicing their new signatures, elders sorted their possessions, relabeling their clothes and making sure that the name of Wilde appeared on nothing. Later on, when the boys were at an English-run boarding school in Germany, they found some cricket flannels still marked with their right names and tore out the labels with the desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads...