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...cunning, left-handed chess, cricket and table tennis player, Haley is scheduled to assume his BBC office in a month's time. His power-over the entire spoken output of BBC-is awesome, but many BBC critics think he may be the answer to their longtime plea for a knowing, public-minded editorial director...
Leary Constantine went to the United Kingdom several years ago with a West Indian cricket team. He bowled so fast that he became a favorite of British fans. The professional leagues persuaded him to stay and play in England...
General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who, back home with his cricket-captain son David, had lately made a picture of English summertime contentment, was in a jam when his Fortress ground-looped on a Sicilian airport about the size of a cricket field. Thoroughly shaken up but uninjured, the General "took it like a good sport," said his pilot...
...Cricket? Liberals have always preferred the game of good v. evil, "the old intellectual game of antagonistic principles. It is an attractive game because it gives us the sensation of thinking, and its first rule is that if one of two opposed principles is wrong, the other is necessarily right." The importance of Forster's work is that he will not play this game; or he plays it only to make...
...with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those years were a period of despondency for Lord Londonderry. Says he: "There was nothing I could do at the time [in 1936, when he was no longer Air Minister] so I went to Sutherland for some fishing...