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...witnessed the cricket play at Newton Centre later in the afternoon. The Dramatic Club members with the aid of two or three unidentifled "ringers" quite surprised themselves and their opponents by doing so well at the English game. Captain L. John Profit Sp., was quite successful in exploding the wicket, as was also Roger Sheppard '40 of the home team. At the bat James D. Lightbody '40 starred...
Hanging near the teller's wicket in most of the nation's banks is a little bronzed plaque announcing that accounts are insured up to $5,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Bankers complained bitterly about having to buy those little plaque's (costing 15?), the idea of deposit insurance being thoroughly obnoxious to them. Once the bankers had the plaques, however, the idea of having them taken away seemed even more obnoxious. Until last week none had been withdrawn. Then Chairman Leo T. Crowley of FDIC announced that North Bergen (N. J.) Trust Co. would...
...slipping behind its wheel the King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed Austrian bathers...
...delights audiences with the incautious brilliance of his batting, had one of his best days. He and Ponsford stayed at bat for all of one day, rolled up a total of 451 runs, a record for a test match partnership. Australia's captain, William M. Woodfull, defended his wicket cleverly for 49 runs more. When the last Australian wicket fell, the total was 701 runs, just short of a test match record. After England was all out for 321, Australia piled up 327 more. England came out for her second innings needing 707 runs to tie. Tea was taken...
...Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made himself look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged out a boundary hit that ended the test...