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...best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble shooter in the Empire. The British stressed the fact that their mission had been planned with collaboration and approval...
...wrinkles of defense showed themselves. Berlin admitted the efficacy of British barrage balloons by raising a circle of its own. R. A. F. pilots report a new type of antiaircraft: strange, fitful spirals of red which were dubbed "googly fire." Googly bowling in cricket corresponds to screwball pitching in baseball...
...father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than his father...
...Tennists Jack Kramer & Ted Schroeder, a pair of 19-year-old Californians: the National Doubles championship; beating Gardnar Mulloy & Henry Prusoff in the final, 6-4, 8-6, 9-7; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. For Partners Kramer & Schroeder, youngest players ever to win the U. S. Doubles, it was their twelfth victory in 15 tournaments...
...applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World War I's wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe...