Word: carl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Dick Wharton qualified in the quarter mile, winning his heat in 49 seconds flat. Carl Pescosolido edged into the finals in the javelin as he tied for sixth place in the qualifying round with a toss of 136 feet 5 1/2 inches...
...Carl A. Pescosolido...
...bullet-headed movie menace (Grand Illusion, Five Graves to Cairo) and pioneer writer-director of realistic films (Blind Husbands, 1919; Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925); of cancer; in his villa at Maurepas, outside Paris. After seven years as an officer in the Austrian cavalry, Vienna-born Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall came to the U.S. in 1909, drifted to Hollywood (1912) and, with his Prussian strut, cropped head and monocle, lodged firmly in the public mind (viz. D. W. Griffith's Hearts of the World) during World War I as a cruel, arrogant German militarist...
Last week the London press got wind of the story of the princess and the piano player and spread it all over their front pages. In Stockholm, Baron Carl-Reinhold von Essen, Master of the Royal Household, made a formal statement: "It was a little innocent affair in London, as so often happens between young people, and the whole matter was declared ended with the Princess Sibylla's reply to the Englishman's letter of proposal. This reply was very polite but definite. The proposal was, from the Swedish viewpoint, to be considered impossible...
...singles players, however, preferred to play their matches at a later date. Therefore, defending champion Junta will play Freiburg, seeded fourth, here on May 31, and second seeded Carl Hirschman of Williams will oppose Amherst's fourth seeded Tom Richardson in the Amherst-Williams match this Tuesday. The two winners will play the final round at a date which will be determined after the Junta-Freiburg match is completed...