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Forever England. Belize is still British. Its traffic-bicycles, pushcarts, pedestrians and one or two right-hand-drive cars -bear Britannically left. In vacant lots small black boys play cricket. Inhabitants speak English with a very broad A. The British themselves do their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey...
...Perils of Pauline. Last week they were all in Boston, at suburban Brookline's venerable Longwood Cricket Club, the next-to-last stop on the tournament line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name...
There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...
...Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...
...first match scheduled is with Bowdoin College, here on July 13. Then, on July 28, the team will meet the United Shoe Country Club of Beverly. They will also play Longwood Cricket Club, the Harvard Alumni, who defeated the Crimson varsity 8-1 this spring, and matches with the Law School, Business School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Science are anticipated. Since Yale is not on the schedule, no letters or numerals will be awarded this summer...