Word: defaults
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...start of the third heat, only two boats were left seriously in the running: Lombardo's limping Tempo and a Detroit entry which had stayed out of trouble, Miss Peps-V. Lombardo dropped out with a fouled oil line, and Miss Peps finished the winner by quasi-default, a sort of streamlined version of Aesop's tortoise. Miss Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being...
...addition to Keevil, three other tennis players advanced to the second round, T. W. Zinsser defeated E. A. Cohodes 6-2, 9-7; J. E. Anderson defeated J. Wattenmaker 6-2, 6-1; and C. A. Lord triumphed by default over V. Brandt...
Said U.S. Delegate Herschel Johnson: ". . . A simple abuse of power, abuse of the veto . . . we are not going to let the thing go by default. . . ." Everybody in U.N., including the Russians, knew that. They had known it since U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall rushed to Washington from the Salt Lake City Governors' Conference a fortnight ago upon reports that an "international brigade" was forming north of Greece...
Closed doubles was also in the same undersold condition yesterday, with a single pair now the automatic winners by default. Six teams, however, are listed for the unrestricted class...
...Deacon nine swept both ends of yesterday's twin bill, routing Leverett by a distinctive 23 to 2 margin and claiming the nightcap over Dunster by default. Bucky Harrison and Sam Bush shared the hurling duties, while Jerry Glynn contributed a home run to the cause. In the third game played, Stan Johnson pitched Adams House to its third victory in two days, using his curve ball effectively to set down Lowell...