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Conferences & Croquet. In the next 20 years Syngman Rhee's life fell into the dreary, frustrating round of most exiled politicians. He attended international conferences vainly trying to win recognition for Korea. (The U.S. Government blocked his attendance at Versailles Treaty meetings and at later disarmament conferences, because his presence might have embarrassed the Japanese.) He quarreled with other exiled Korean politicians. (Rhee was for continued passive resistance; other leaders favored violent action.) By World War II, the Provisional Government was almost defunct and Rhee turned over the Korean central agency in China to Kim Koo, Korea...
When a cache of Boswell's private papers turned up in Ireland's Malahide Castle in the mid-'20s scholars promptly agreed it was the greatest literary find of the century. In 1930, rummagers at Malahide poked into an old croquet box, found more. In 1931, a third cache was uncovered in Scotland's Fettercairn House, squirreled away in storerooms and a nursery cupboard. In 1937, a fourth find was made at Malahide, and two years later another, this time in a heap of papers stored over an unused stable. Last week, to slightly winded Boswell...
When young, I never liked to play Dominoes, checkers, Lawn croquet...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
...Britons, whose athletes had been losing to foreigners all summer in golf, cricket, tennis, boxing and soccer (TIME, July 17), Englishman Hicks's title was some consolation. But no one got very excited about it: only 100 diehard croquet fans had turned out to watch...