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...Playing his first cricket match on a pickup Oxford team, Army's former All America Halfback Pete Dawkins cracked out a "boundary," the equivalent of a home run, moved Oxford's Captain Alan Smith to murmur, "Jolly good, oh, say, jolly good." But Rhodes Scholar Dawkins, who startled the British last year by mastering rugby, shrugged off his feat: "It would take me 80 years to become a good cricket player...
...Cricket Blues. Today Loudon rules over 250,000 employees spread throughout an empire that includes wells in 17 countries, 47 refineries, the world's biggest tanker fleet (551 ships), and interests in oil companies in 76 lands. The Group is - due in large part to his efforts - perhaps the most international group in the business world. At the last budget meeting a Swiss reported on manufacturing, a Frenchman on marketing, an American on finance, a Dutchman on exploration and production. The coordinator (a favorite Shell title) was British. Before the war the Group hired only a few foreigners...
...specialist, a man like Harris might well have been screened out. Born in 1856 in Galway, son of a Welsh lieutenant in the Royal Navy, young Harris ran away from school at 15, having made a name for himself by hitting the class bully with a cricket ball-which was (and is) not considered cricket in an English school. Harris made his way to America, became a shoeshine boy and sand hog in New York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer...
...forests and lush green pastures. For the white landowners, some of them from England's titled families, carving farms out of virgin bush had been hard but rewarding work, producing some modest fortunes. They lived well, and when the sun went down, they played hard. Upcountry, there was cricket, polo, and pink gins on the terrace for the retired military and naval officers, whose modest pensions stretched farther in Kenya than they did in the changing social order back home in England. In the free and easy atmosphere, few of the 30,000 whites (in a land...
Naturally enough some of the old guard may feel that sporting on such foreign playing fields is not cricket. To these the avant garde can answer that in our new bright and shiny society an artist needs his dealer, a writer needs his agent, and everyone needs his public relations counselor. Mere quality is no substitute for rating. It pays to advertise...