Word: 13th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Without Reservations, starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Cummings, opens the Theater's 13th season...
...Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a procession of some 90 stories. Then came Emile Zola's 20-volume series of novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. Now Jules Romains' Men of Good Will, a study of French history and habits between 1908 and 1933, has reached its 13th and penultimate volume...
After 21 years as associate editor, Davenport moved into the corner office on the 13th floor of 250 Park Avenue. Said he: "I don't know anything about the job- but in a week or so I may." He had been "broadly uneducated" at several schools before he quit the University of Pennsylvania as a sophomore. ("The magazines had bought a few of my stories and it completely ruined me.") As an infantryman in World War I he went from private to captain, was badly wounded...
Spindle-legged Champion Black Bob threw everything but the gate receipts at Challenger Allie Stolz, floored him five times. But unlike Billy Conn, Challenger Stolz was game. He was finally knocked out in the 13th round, got a big hand in half-filled Madison Square Garden for staying as long...
...Court. To be the 13th Chief Justice of the U.S. he chose Frederick Moore Vinson, 56, the old friend and versatile Kentuckian who had ably managed the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion and been Treasury Secretary for eleven months...