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...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...
...decade ago a gloomy band of British socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
...results were eminently satisfactory. Socialist Gibson, who looks like Eire's Eamon de Valera, won with 3,105 votes. Liberal Herbert Wiebe trailed him with 2,406 votes. Progressive-Conservative Rupert Ramsay with...
Malcolm MacDonald, 45-year-old son of Britain's famed "Ramsay Mac," lived for five years in Canada as the United Kingdom's High Commissioner. In that time he learned more than most Britons know about Canada and the way Canadians feel. Last week in London, headed for a new post as Governor General of Malaya, he gave Great Britain some sound advice on how to get along with her oldest daughter...
...Front. Jolly, dapper Sir Stewart, 48, has kept an eye on Britain's eye troubles since he matriculated at St. Andrews University in 1915. He won high favor with Downing Street circles in 1932 when he saved Fellow Scotsman Ramsay MacDonald from blindness, with two delicate operations on his glaucoma-affected eyes. In 1934, he performed the operation which staved off blindness for the King of Siam...