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...poll further showed that other recreational facilities in the college are felt to be "woefully inadequate." Specifically, "more music, ping-pong tables, theatrical productions, and lectures on popular subjects" were requested...
International Ping-pong. Though language barriers tended to keep the Russians to themselves, the more serious-minded comrades played chess with the more serious-minded Americans and Britons; the less serious-minded joined in nightly howling at the bar or entered Ping-pong games involving ten nationalities and scoring in four languages. Even when the British playfully threw glasses of beer at the Russians from the top of a staircase, there was no international crisis. Things were less friendly in the villa, where the women of the press corps were quartered. There American newshens accused both French and Russian ladies...
Last week, on a trim, whitewashed farm some 15 miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
...George, when not off resting in Italy or planning new marble fountains for the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire, would give Osbert earnest paternal lectures: "Unless you learn to play ping-pong properly, you can never hope to be a Leader of Men." Sacheverell was ruled by governesses and tutors to within an inch of his life. At four he was examining the architecture of Kensington Palace; at ten he was writing letters about Umbrian vases, Turkish armor, Stone Age remains...
...Bible schools, a 15-minute Sunday night radio program over Morgantown's station WAJR. The Smiths established a 3,500-volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth...