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Only U. S. college with a varsity cricket team is Philadelphia's 107-year-old Haverford. An English gardener, who landscaped the college's trim, stately campus back in the 18505, introduced the sport, and up to 1925 Haverford regularly sent teams to compete on England's playing fields. By English standards, Haverford's cricket has never been of a very high order. When the British cruiser Exeter (conqueror of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee-TIME, Dec. 25) put into Philadelphia last spring, its tarry cricketers bowled over the Haverfords with ease. The Haverfords consoled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morley to Haverford | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

With Pinocchio come a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Figaro, Geppetto, J. Worthington Foul-fellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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