Word: cricketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the Australian cricket team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Australia was matched with Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup interzone finals. After 27 countries had been eliminated, the survivors were fighting for the right to challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...
Communism-U.S. Brand was the fifth in an irregular series of documentaries produced by ABC, all under the supervision of Saudek. Others so far: Schoolteacher-1047 (in three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...
...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...