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...three years, Brian Johnston was a model British Broadcasting Corp. announcer, specializing in cricket and theater commentary. Then, in 1948, he started a show called Let's Go Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston...
Last week, after being picked up from a dinghy in the English Channel by a helicopter, Johnston suddenly announced that he was through with stunting and would go back to cricket. "Frankly, old man," he told a reporter, "I hate danger...
...mere cataloguers, the Misses Rothschild and Clay get a certain mischievous enjoyment out of their work with parasites. "The thought of a tapeworm as long as a cricket pitch [22 yards] living secretly in the stomach of a film star," they say, "arouses in us a feeling of macabre amusement...
John Fletcher made 36 runs out of a total team score of 56 as the cricket team whipped the West Indian Cricket Club of Boston last Saturday. The West Indians racked up only 53 runs, giving the Crimson its third win in four games...
...robbed them or burgled . . ., values were no matter, and you were hanged, even if you took a penny or saucepan only. 'Putting in fear' was the important, unforgivable thing . . ." Nowadays in Britain, continued Herbert, "there is growing up, I feel, a notion that it is not cricket to hurt a burglar, though he may do anything...