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...protruding ears who is indisputably the greatest cricket batsman in the world. He, George Donald Bradman, with the other members of an Australian team that has been touring Canada, arrived in Manhattan to play three matches against teams of West Indians and one on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket Club. Fatigued by the Canadian tour, in which his team won 14 out of 17 matches, and bothered by the sun, Batsman Bradman was not at his best in the first match. He hit out recklessly, got only four boundary hits for four runs each, three hits...
...Hopson, dominating figure in Associated Gas & Electric Co., who surprised his bankers last spring when he offered a "baby bond" issue just as the U. S. was selling "baby bonds" to combat hoarding (TIME, March 7). Not selling many baby bonds, not exchanging all of its new 364-day Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week he pulled not one but four rabbits from his fecund hat. To his 250,000 security holders...
Last week Fermata obtained a new headmistress to succeed Mary M. Elder, Oxford graduate. Principal Tabor announced that next year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
Undaunted, Staten Island Edison prepared to issue 364-day bonds, the Commission having authority only over borrowings for a year or more...