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...eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions is not cricket.) But no departing visitor had a suspicious bulge. At 5 o'clock, in an atmosphere of tense frustration, the museum closed its massive doors. At week's end, Metropolitan Director Francis Henry Taylor, having issued 950 handbills describing the stolen picture for art dealers, police, and other museums, left...
Despite this drubbing, last week's football game was an indication of how U.S. sports have swept Allied troops in the Middle East. A year ago, football seemed an undisciplined roughhouse to rugby-bred Britons. Baseball seemed dull to cricket-loving Allies. Now the Middle East has its own international leagues in both sports...
Americans made no attempt to sell their sports (though Britons futilely promoted rugby and cricket). When Army teams played exhibition baseball games, Allies yawned at first. The Americans kept playing. Soon even British troops were borrowing equipment. Now the Middle East softball league includes British, South African, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and U.S. teams...
...Village green containing a cricket pitch with trees for the faithful to doze under during cricket matches...
...American Museum of Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...