Word: cricketers
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Macmillan had reached back over years of blurring class lines to present Britain with a belted earl of a Prime Minister, an elegantly casual product of the cricket wickets of Eton, a toothy, grouse-shooting, extremely U member of the Establishment. Facing elections, he had placed his Conservative Party in the hands of a member of the House of Lords who has not had to run for elective office since he inherited his title twelve years...
...Home's father was a cheerful, absent-minded nobleman of the Wodehouse breed-the sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels...
Mild Blighty. Son of a distinguished London publisher, Alec went to his father's school, Sherborne, where he was everything a public-school boy should be: a star batsman at cricket, a fine forward at rugby, a winner of the English verse prize. What changed that Kiplingesque image was a mild flirtation he had with a younger boy. When it was discovered, the experience soured his last months in school but inspired the novel that brought him early fame -The Loom of Youth...
...given sanctuary at the home of the U.S. ambassador, and his staff was taken under police protection to a hotel. But still the rampage continued. Rioters wrecked the 119-year-old British Club and plowed up its cricket field and tennis courts, then moved on to sack suburban homes of British residents. Getting into the act, the Indonesian government seized all British business firms in the country "in the interest of their safety," but denied that this heralded a sweeping new nationalization order...
...tournament final Sullivan will face the winner of a semifinal match between Frank Ripley, the number two man for the Crimson, and captain-elect Sandy Walker, the number six player. Ripley and Walker will meet Sunday morning at the Longwood Cricket Club...