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It was a great game, and exciting and dramatic and even at times tragic - but funny it emphatically was not.

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The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
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Born: January 12, 1891
Died: June 6, 1977 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir John Cecil Masterman was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain.
Known for:
  1. An Oxford tragedy (1933)
  2. The Case of the Four Friends (1957)
  3. Fate Cannot Harm Me (1935)

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