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...great author fought the good fight against bad schools, bad prisons, bad laws and the bad byproducts of the Industrial Revolution. With Bernard Shaw, Johnson insists that this makes Dickens a social revolutionary. Lenin, for one, did not agree and once stomped out of a dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth, because he could not stomach Dickens' "middleclass sentimentality." It is probably true to say, as other critics have, that Dickens had an alert social conscience; he knew what he was against, but he never knew quite what he was for-except the underdog...
Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...
...land-rich Australia, where tennis courts sprout in people's backyards, the game, along with cricket, is a national pastime. Youngsters are well coached as soon as they are old enough to toddle; the tennis season is ten months long. Only the once-famed California tennis factory, which produced such stars as Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer, can match the Aussie output. But the California factory has obviously slipped a cog. The U.S.'s weak answer last week to the Aussie production line: naming Seixas player-captain of the Davis Cup team, with Richardson...
...tournament was held at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club from 1915 until 1920, moved for the next three years to Philadelphia's Germantown Cricket Club, and returned to Forest Hills in 1924, where it has been held ever since...
...ranking Vic Seixas and Australia's third-ranking Mervyn Rose, the National tennis doubles championship, by defeating Australia's World-Beaters Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, 3-6, 10-8, 10-8, 6-8, 8-6; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass...