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...sipping a drink, the open door of the secretary's office, lighted with artificial daylight, serves as a stage. At Dr. Souchon's command a Negro servant places one picture at a time on a big easel, leaves it there until an imperious click from a mechanical cricket in the doctor's hand signals for its removal. Meanwhile Dr. Souchon's secretary takes down in shorthand even the most irresponsible remarks the visitor makes. Painter Souchon, who enjoys showing his pictures almost as much as he does painting them, has secretly collected a whole file...
Said Lord Halifax: "I say, what is a World Series?" Reporter Fred Pasley of the isolationist New York Daily News told him, slyly added: "It is something like your cricket-only different...
...were on board ship that evening in 1917 that there would be little point in having boat drills during that voyage across the Channel. "This ship is cradling eight-five thousand gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside...
...Sturdy, blonde Louise Brough, 18, of Beverly Hills, Calif.: the National Girls' tennis championship; for the second year in a row; defeating 16-year-old Doris Hart of Miami in the final, 7-5, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Few weeks ago, up-&-coming Miss Brough, displaying an astounding serve, trounced Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, one of the foremost challengers for the National Women's championship to be played at Forest Hills this week. Youngster Brough will compete at Forest Hills...
...with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...