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Manuel L. Quezon, the little brown cricket who for three years has been the Philippine Commonwealth's first President, passed his 60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his birthday by a two-day national party-speeches, parades, festivals. The party wound up with a giant ball in Manila to raise-in more democratic tradition-anti-tuberculosis funds. To punctuate the festivities he addressed 40,000 students & teachers. His subject: the state of the Philippine soul...
Into a beautiful little town across the Thames from Windsor Castle, with narrow streets, ancient Gothic and Tudor buildings and the fairest cricket pitch in England, visitors poured last week until it looked like a crowded London suburb. All came to see a 100-year-old ceremony at a 500-year-old school-Eton's famed Fourth of June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange...
Almost without fail each Tuesday and Friday since March 8, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt has received reporters in his large oval White House office, his Hyde Park study or his Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes...
...performance, the White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
...lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...