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...Charles Dickens tale. Due out at year's end, the fully animated, 24-min. featurette reunites Mickey with some old friends, including Minnie Mouse as his wife, Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Goofy as Marley's Ghost, Donald Duck as Ebenezer's nephew, Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Daisy Duck as Scrooge's girlfriend. Newcomers may not notice, but age has changed Mickey's voice. His creator, Walt Disney, spoke for him for the first 19 years of his life, and Disney Sound Effects Man Jim Macdonald, 75, carried...
...Yardling Cricket Johnson got the call to defend Harvard's net and did an admirable job, turning away 60 percent of the Owls' attempts as the Crimson succumbed to the hometown favorites...
...still the prerequisite for invitations to many of the formal affairs in Cambidge. His off-hand friendliness could only elicit a put-off from the many who found him amusing, but avoidable. As one of his more genteel classmates expressed it, Jack didn't know the difference "between cricket and non-cricket...
Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into a boat lest I should fall out the other side," he wrote wistfully. When he matriculated at Oxford, she followed him and took lodgings there, to oversee his physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer...
...nurtured us and protected us from rebellion and other follies. Indeed, America, like New Zealand, is often accused of being more British than Britain is, while Louisiana, like Quebec, hearkens back to an earlier and in many ways more pleasant France. No Englishman could show more excitement over a cricket match than the average sports-loving American, and last week's beginning of the World Cricket Series was a national ritual for most Americans. Louisiana, in turn, has retained that raffish, somewhat off-center charm we associate with all things French: good food, good conversation and a fine contempt...