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...converted C-4 troopships, the Marine Jumper and Marine Tiger, will make eight round-trip crossings of the Atlantic this summer for the special transportation of "academic and cultural persons." The ships, made available by the Maritime Service, will be operated by the U. S. and Moore-McCormack lines...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
With the bases filled and his week-old defeat at the hands of the Tiger nine still fresh in his memory, Brendon Reilly trotted onto the Soldiers Field mound in the seventh inning of Saturday's diamond contest, hurled three straight strikes to Nassauman Ned Zundel, and saved Jack Wallace's four to two triumph...
...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
...commenting on the Princeton game, which the Varsity dropped 1 to 0 on Saturday afternoon, the Tiger coach cited as the turning point of the contest Bill Hamlen's tremendous fourth Inning drive to left field with two on and two out, on which the left fielder made a great catch after a long run. "It was one of the longest hits I've seen all year, "said Dolph Samborski last night, "and would certainly have made the score 3 to 1 in our favour if it hadn't been caught...