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...borrow a cricket term, it was a very sticky wicket. There was the visiting Westhampton (L.I.) Mallet Club, unrivaled at home, ignominiously defeated eight straight times by London's Hurlingham Croquet Club. "Do you need a coach?" inquired the British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living...
...three decades on the air, the Original Amateur Hour has introduced to the American public such virtuosos as a man who hammered out Yankee Doodle by beating his head with a mallet while producing different notes by opening and closing his mouth; another who rendered Swanee River by slapping together two bananas; a little old lady who played hoedown fiddle, slipped out her false teeth, and frantically clacked them up and down in time with the music; and, in 1935, a fat twelve-year-old named Maria Kalogeropoulos...
...unnamed hero is swept up in a mass arrest of Algerian demonstrators, taken to an overnight concentration camp in the Sports Palace, and released to go back first to his mistress, a free-swinging Galician tart, and then with his hook and mallet to the old job in the slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses...
...Operation Mallet, hammering at a tunnel-and-village complex a scant 15 miles southeast of Saigon. The Thors: some 2,000 men with tanks and artillery of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division...
...There is a Mallett's Bay on northern Lake Champlain, only five miles from Winooski, as well as a Mallett's Creek and Mallett's Head, but they all appear to have been named for one Captain Stephen Mallet, a French recluse who died alone and penniless in the area in the 1790s...