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...orderly and sensible race of people would so amuse themselves." So wrote the good Reverend James Pycroft in 1851; but the American reader may be pardoned, a snort of derision at the phrase "orderly and sensible." Compared to a simple two-and-a-half hour baseball game, a typical three-day cricket match, hedged about with centuries of tradition, does seem far from sensible. The Englishman can only insist that the game is really perfectly rational (if you ignore one or two of the finer points of the rules, and the entire system of nomenclature...
...suggested a further noticeable difference between cricket and baseball--the sixes of the scores. In inter-country cricket (equivalent to major league baseball) an average score would be, say, 580 to 517. In order to have time to do all this lavish scoring, the teams are obliged to play three-day matches, six hours a day (not counting the tea interval and pauses for the inevitable English rain showers...
When a marine completes a task that is everyday routine to the doughboys in the infantry, he is slapped on the back, given a medal and a three-day pass. And now, insult to injury! The marines land in 'Frisco! First rest in months. Long time overseas. Celebrations. Awards. What about the 24th, 25th and the 1st Cavalry Divisions, to name a few, who were on occupation duty prior to the Korean conflict, and have had as much time on the line as the marines, if not more...
...sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally saves the settlers...
...Book (Prentice-Hall; $2), which sold lethargically until General Features, a lusty young feature service, chopped it into 19 pieces lor newspaper syndication. In a humorous vein Wheeler plants his diet tips ("I put a halt to salt"), generously allows his readers to balance their calories over three-day periods so they have time to do penance for bursts of overindulgence. Instead of frowning on high-calorie alcohol, Elmer simply warns against sweet mixes' and high-proof liquor ("for every proof add a calorie"). Those who can't keep count of drinks should pocket a match with every...