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...scoreless pitching duel. The Aussies had a bit of a scare in the fifth when a U.S. lass tripled, but tight defensive play left her stranded on third. Then in the sixth, Australia's Eleanor McKenzie doubled. A pretty secretary from Ashburton, Victoria, Eleanor got her start playing cricket with the boys-and she runs the bases as though she had taken lessons from Maury Wills...
...HUAC called for the recognition of golf, fencing, and skiing as varsity intercollegiate sports with the same status as the 15 sports currently denoted as major sports by the Faculty Committee. Riflery and sailing would become "club sports" with the same official status as pistol, Karate, cricket, and rugby...
...their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson. He visited a poultry farm, later addressed a mass rally while cows grazed on a nearby golf course and goats gamboled on a cricket field...
...Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament, was met by his wife with "a pie from Fortnum and Mason's and a bottle of champagne." "My dear," he winked, "you are more like...
...mild, clerical jokes and asking the congregation to take a deep, tension-easing breath: "Relax-give yourself over to God." Like Norman Vincent Peale, he spends more time analyzing modern ills than expounding theology, his chatty sermons are lightened by references to such contemporary phenomena as booing cricket umpires, which he deplores, and cosmetics, which he endorses ("God made women beautiful, and they should develop this talent"). When he recently took his text from the Sermon on the Mountain"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"-Powell turned it into a homily on how to live with...