Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performed in the U.S. Year ago the string version of the Seven Words was given its U.S. debut, by the Primrose Quartet. On sale last week was the first recording of it (Victor: 17 sides; $9), a fine one by the same outfit, whose boss is crisp, Scottish-born, cricket-playing William Primrose, world's best viola player...
...next national champion will be either Betz or Bundy," predicted U. S. tennis experts last fall, when Alice Marble turned professional. Last week, at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club, the finalists in the national indoor tennis championship turned out to be: 21-year-old Pauline Betz and 24-year-old Dorothy May Sutton Bundy...
...Osbert testify that he played cricket against the Yorkshire eleven when he was seven years...
Before a microphone on two national radio hookups this week stood an eloquent keeper of the U. S. public conscience. He spoke to the nation on a great moral problem of World War II. Shall tens of millions of men, women and children be allowed to starve? Like Jiminy Cricket, Herbert Clark Hoover is patient, persevering, practical. And now, stubbornly pursuing a plan to answer the voice of conscience, he had progress to report...
Although Night Train, directed by Carol Reed, lacks the polish of its Hitchcock predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with...