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...most everyone else in town had changed their minds about Jory's experiment. Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away). The villagers even took them on in cricket matches and invited them to tea. Among their hosts was the objecting lady magistrate herself, who last week took a bunch of the boys off on a sightseeing tour of some local Roman ruins. Concluded Albert Clarke, a retired police superintendent and unofficial camp "commandant," who had come along to enforce...
...Laver of Australia won the $25,000 U.S. Professional Tennis Championship by beating Spain's Andre Gimeno at the Longwood Cricket Club yesterday...
...crackers and cheese. Although he is deeply religious, Stravinsky seldom goes to the Russian Orthodox Church, once became indignant when the priest hearing his confession asked for his autograph. For relaxation Stravinsky plays solitaire and endless games of Scrabble (he uses a special Scrabble dictionary, which is not considered cricket by most Scrabble fans...
...behind the sprawling ten-room house in Swansea, Wales, where he lives with his blonde wife Hilary and two sons and a daughter, all three under ten. He is a lecturer in English at the University College of Swansea, dislikes London literary society, likes jazz, Guinness stout, science fiction, cricket and Rugby matches, and making faces like Lucky Jim at parties...
...Harvard-Yale cricket match Saturday resulted in a draw. Batting first, the Elis amassed a total of 102 runs for a loss of seven wickets before declaring...