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...borrow equipment. South African girls stationed in Cairo talked U.S. Sergeant Walter Dzilinski into coaching them, challenged U.S. nurses at softball, licked them 7-3. (The nurses promptly blacklisted Dzilinski, demanded two return games, won both.) The Army's sports program in the Middle East ranges from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training for a return match next month, expect to fight before 30,000 at the El Alamein Sporting Club...
Popcorn and Ping-Pong. Two years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence...
Phillips Brooks House has other services apart from those of the University Committee. Its parlor on the first floor is open to service people as a lounge from 8 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night. On the third floor are ping-pong tables, darts, and other means of recreation, and that's where the dances are held...
...regular nightly diversion is what we call a snooper shoot. The Japs' reconnaissance planes circle like midges, dropping flares to summon torpedo bombers. Our main batteries light out with unexpected bursts. Sometimes we let go with everything and the tracers dance across the sea like ping-pong balls. It is impossible in the darkness to count how many we shoot down...
...interlude between wars, Mark Clark was just another officer. He went through the advanced schools-Infantry, General Staff, War College. He played tennis and ping-pong, developed a taste for fishing in the Rockies and Puget Sound. In 1924 he married blonde Maurine Doran of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Clark has confessed publicly that she met her husband "on a blind date" in Washington. There are two children: Ann, 17, who attends a high-school sculpture class in the national capital; and Will, 18, a plebe at West Point...