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Ripe for Laughs. In a red plaid sports cap and corduroy trousers full of holes, the bird man was soon out on Commonwealth Avenue collecting crowds in skeptic ranks. In his hands he carried what looked like two thin aluminum cricket bats. Around his neck was a lanyard from which dangled a long aluminum tube. The trees were ripe with starlings; Mount Vernon was ripe for a laugh...
Walking fast, the bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used one to stroke the tube hanging from his neck...
...Sterling Area One Dollar Dominion One Sun That Never Sets One Maltese Cross One Marylebone Cricket Club One Trans-Antarctic Expedition And a Mother Country Up a Gum Tree...
...colored. Commonwealth nations have jailed members of their own Parliaments, suppressed newspapers, and in one case (Pakistan) abolished Parliament, deported the President, and imposed military rule. Said a British professor: "About the only thing we can't stand is being beaten by one of them at cricket...
...better suited to present the public image of trust and integrity fostered by the funds than Dwight Robinson. He is the very model of a Proper Bostonian, from his steel-rimmed spectacles and dark, conservative suits-he always wears a vest in the office -to his clubs (Union, Longwood Cricket) and his finely polished sense of discretion...