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...Queen of Tonga was a hit wherever she went. Her street clothes were unremarkable, her manner motherly and informal, but she maintained an air of dignity and genuine queenliness. She turned up at the ballet to see Margot Fonteyn dance Sleeping Beauty, at Lord's to watch the cricket, hefted babies at the Chelsea welfare center, inspected Canterbury and Cambridge...
...Haverford, Pa., Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's U.N. delegate, threw out the first ball in a cricket match between Haverford College and a British embassy team. Sir Gladwyn also revealed that 1) cricket is not as popular as it once was in England, 2) it is abominated in Ireland and Scotland, and 3) he, himself, dislikes cricket intensely. Score of the game: Embassy 81, Haverford...
...Removal of the tax on professional cricket matches...
...sons, his disspirited wife, even the ants in his garden. At breakfast the family waited nervously for his spluttering comments on the news, alternating with loud, wet spoonfuls of porridge. He started a "Defend Britain Club" to save the country from dangerous ideas and to raise the standards of cricket...
...from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping to bind together . . . the Commonwealth." Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their...