Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball's spindly, high-collared Connie Mack, celebrating his 86th birthday in Philadelphia, blew out a single candle, sliced a 50-lb. cake, offered a generous birthday wish: "I really want to give Philadelphia fans a championship team before my brains wear...
...Visited General of the Armies John J. Pershing on his 86th birthday at Walter Reed Hospital, took advantage of the occasion to make a little prayer for "eternal peace in this world...
...Again. In Manhattan, Charles Vogel leaped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, crashed on a terrace one floor below, crawled over the parapet and plummeted (this time successfully) to the 30th floor...
...86th, 95th, 97th, 194th...
...Slow Wheels. The War Department said the 86th had already been screened twice, the 95th once, to avoid sending highpoint men overseas. The Navy Department's stock answer to protests was that its policy was being "clarified," that 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 men would be discharged within 18 months...