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...fell for the last time, Detroit owned Sassetta's prized Agony for a bargain $25,000. The institute could hardly believe its good luck at bringing together three pictures that had been separated for centuries. Said Assistant Director Paul L. Grigaut: "Both English and American dealers were very cricket about it. Our biggest trouble was getting it away from Italian collectors. Amazingly enough, they have few Sassettas on display in their own country and they wanted to take it back to Italy...
Britons, for reasons best known to themselves, take their national game of cricket almost as seriously as war. Yet England, mother of the game, has not won a test series with her chief foe, Australia, since the season of 1932-33. Stiff-upper-lipped about perennial defeats, Britons could only mourn the virtuosity of their cricketers...
...Lord's Cricket Ground last week, on the fifth and final day of the second test match, the help materialized. The chief helper was Yorkshire Batsman Willie Watson, 32, better known as a professional soccer player than as a cricketer. England needed a whopping 363 runs to win, and there was only a seven-hour playing day (with at least 1½ hours out for luncheon and tea) to do it in. Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay...
Headlined the Manchester Guardian: MIRACLE OF FAITH AT LORD'S. The stately London Times began its story: "Out of darkness, through fire into light. Thus did England yesterday rise like some phoenix from the ashes . . ." But best of all, what the Guardian's Cricket Critic Neville Cardus once called England's "proper spirit of hostility" was ablaze again...
Then followed nine years of drifting from job to job, convictions for false pretenses, petty larceny, and once for hitting his landlady over the head with a cricket bat. A kindly Roman Catholic priest befriended him, tried to reunite him and his wife, but Christie stole the priest's car and went to jail again. After that the Christies went to live at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, a shabby London district. In World War II, Christie joined the Police War Reserve and earned two commendations for "efficient detection in crime.'' He took up photography, kept scores...