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...White Plains, N. Y. used to laugh to friends of his 23-year-old wife Catherine, "she thinks she's got a bug in her ear.'' Mr. Boudreau's skepticism seemed justified for, as his wife admitted, nothing had entered her ear since a cricket flew in, and that happened when she was an 8-year-old girl playing on her father's farm in Galway, Ireland. But last week Mr. Boudreau was confounded, Mrs. Boudreau triumphant...
Married. Mrs. Diana Lucy Munro, 38, eldest daughter of Great Britain's Stanley Baldwin; to George Durant Kemp-Welch. 26, onetime cricket captain of Cambridge; in London...
Said Lord Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of the Poet Laureate, and one-time Captain of the All England Cricket XI, to a Hollywood newshawk: "Ha! Let's leave the family's poetry to old Alfred. I don't go in for poetry myself, but I do a bit of writing. As a matter of fact, with due respect to Lord Alfred, I've just published a book entitled From Verse to Worse...
...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...
...enrolment limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...