Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Said a sputtering BBC announcer: "It makes me furious-absolutely furious!" At Nottingham, England, in the famed Test Matches (Britain v. Australia), an Australian cricketer was sending down "bumpers" (a beanball type of bowling that bounced up into the batsman's face). Every time he bowled, the audience cut loose with the British equivalent of Brooklynese. Even the tea-sippers in the pavilion joined in the vulgar booing. What was cricket coming...
...made it a refugee rendezvous. It printed playing cards and catalogues, supplied teams of experts to produce books in "packages," all ready for publishers to bring out. Its cheap ($1) Britain in Pictures series sold 4,000,000 copies, ran to 120 volumes covering everything from windmills to cricket...