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...Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue, two British cricket fanciers and a mort of shootings and stranglings...
Died. Martin Bladen, Baron Hawke, 78, famed English cricketer, often captain of England's cricket team, longtime (1883-1910) captain-of Yorkshire; in Edinburgh. His heartfelt prayer ("I pray God no professional may ever captain England") has not yet been denied...
Work & Money. Hard work, however, is the general rule at Cavendish, although the staffers sometimes knock off early in summer to play cricket. The staff numbers some 60 researchers, of whom per-haps ten leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur...
...British dodge of calming the public by having newspapers mention that John Bull was paying more attention to cricket scores than to the crisis was considered not worth trying in London this week, but in Manhattan the Journal-American made a brave effort with "WAR IN EUROPE WOULD HIT 6-DAY BIKE RACE...
...Capital, the clerks warned pickets not to use even linguistic violence (words like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week's end, the new style strike had produced a crop of arrests, some old-style violence. Most...