Word: 76th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breaking out into the sports limelight briefly last Monday at the 76th Sports-writers' Luncheon was Bill Bingham, peacetime head of the H. A. A., and czar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rules Committee, recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel in the army...
...reporters to its conventions unless they belonged to its American Newspaper Guild, the U.S. press would unquestionably set up a yell that could be heard in the farthest recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union, the Institute of Journalists, has never struck...
...Louis printer named Harry Sharpe, whose rewards were 1) the Missouri lightweight championship, 2) a side bet of $500, 3) eleven months in jail for violating an anti-prizefight law. (Crosby was let off.) Both men had trained so well they were still slugging in the 76th round, when they knocked each other down simultaneously. Crosby banged his head and got up dazed. Sharpe put him down for the count a few minutes later...
Queen Mary celebrated her 76th birthday in a tiny West Country village in England by going to a servicemen's concert, receiving flowers from local children...
...guilty," said Mike, speaking without rancor. The 76th Congress declared the war, but what had it done about it? Quoted Mike: "'We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done...