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...rare, fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman. Bradman sadly put away his bats, fought to shake off his affliction, slowly succeeded. Last week, at 37, he again stepped to the wicket, captaining South Australia v. Queensland, batted placements between fieldsmen with oldtime perfection...
Bishop Wand's new post is sure to please sport-minded Anglicans. Onetime president of the Queensland Soccer Association, he expects to take an active interest in the Fulham Football Club-"if I am asked." In Brisbane, he once created a sensation by announcing that he had no objection to Sunday sports-providing that church was attended too. Said he: "If it is a sin to play games on Sunday, I am a sinner...
...began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...
...shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have on the Queensland coast, would get a take-off point for air assault on the populous south...
...political ace in the hole is the fact that Fadden can with some exactness call himself a self-made man, which is particularly useful with the Australian electorate. He started as a messenger boy in a sugar mill in Queensland, had only a common school education. Later he taught himself accountancy, made a comfortable living at that. Now he lives unostentatiously near Brisbane, with his wife and four children, makes a point of the simplicity of his home life, his family games of Chinese checkers...