By Christine Wallace
Throughout the window of by no means earlier than noticeable letters, Christine Wallace finds the non-public Don Bradman - stricken father, dependable pal and outspoken critic.
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But it would be a splendid beginning to invite 50 Primary Schools, inside and outside the metropolitan area, to nominate 20 chosen youngsters . . to be the guests of the VCA for one day of a Test Match, to sit in a block, widely publicised, photographed and televised, as the VCA Schoolboy Test Seats . . Before you blanch at the financial side of this promotion, one should point out that at Georgetown, Barbados, for the 4th Test there were 5,000 school children seated each day in a reserve stand built exclusively for school children.
In the same letter he said that he and MCC chairman of selectors Dick Robbins had agreed on bright cricket in the next Ashes tour by England, scheduled for the summer of 1962–63. ‘We will see,’ Bradman closed. ‘We saw a great Saturday at Lords (when the Pakistan captain and No. 8 made centuries) from the vantage point of the clock tower box and at least six dry martinis,’ Rivett wrote. ‘This is much the best way to watch Pakistan playing cricket. ’ It was doubtful whether Pakistan would beat even St Kilda, Melbourne or Fitzroy District firsts, Rivett went on.
I don’t feel I want to go back over the Rivett years in Adelaide,’ wrote Murray James to Rhyll. ‘I will always remember your father as an idealist with an obsessive drive to make the world a better place in which to live. No person in my experience, did more for the working journalist than your father. ’ News journalist John Miles suggested that Adelaide and the paper were the wrong scale for a Rohan Rivett. ‘Rohan was a big man in every sense,’ Miles recalled. ‘Perhaps it was his stature that caused his downfall, if it could be called that.