Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson captain Gerry Emmet, after narrowly losing his first game in extra points, came back dramatically to win his match in four games. Emmet's combination of delicate drop shots and slashing aisle shots allowed him to retain control of the center of the court, while the Midshipman was obliged to scamper around...
...jolly veterans who comprise the American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...that point, Chairman Hurley and C-W's board of directors had another piece of news: the company cut its quarterly dividend almost in half, from 62½? to 37½?. Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000 drop (to $9,000,000) in profits. Once again C-W was suspended from trading as investors tried frantically to dump their stock. When trading was resumed, C-W dropped, wound up 5⅞ points below the high...
...Drop of a Hat. One of Broadway's gayest evenings provided by two witty Englishmen with the timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts...