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...less appeal to a man who had come up the hard way from the back-breaking labor and pocket-pinching strikes of a Lancashire coal mine. Father Roberts recalls his barely controlled anger the day Robin deliberately broke a hoe to avoid work. The outraged father took a fly swatter to his son's well-padded bottom ("It don't hurt your hand and it don't mark the kid"). But Robin went right on playing. When he couldn't talk one of his three brothers into playing catch, he would prop an old mattress against...
...maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
...closed Vanguardia's B.A. plant, on the deadpan excuse that it violated municipal ordinances (TIME, Sept. 8). Since then the Socialists have skipped from one secret printing plant to another, sometimes publishing on wrapping paper, but always publishing. Last week Perón seemed to have the swatter poised; a new decree required each paper to carry its printer's name and address on penalty of confiscation of the issue...
That blow did almost as much for Ted Williams' reputation as the 23 homers he had walloped for the Red Sox. Almost everybody forgot the sad all-star performance of the National Leaguers (who got whitewashed 12-0). Visiting sportswriters who knew the prewar Williams as a sulky swatter whose hitting was good and ballpark behavior was bad wrote glowing stories acclaiming him for what he was: the best hitter in baseball...
...Another vicious ball-swatter is short-tempered, tough Harold Ickes. His favorite game: table tennis (ping-pong, as Mr. Ickes plays...