Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster, his unbeaten streak now at eight for this season, will start at 177, probably facing Gene Roberts. Brown's strongest wrestler is captain Lou Winner, a 167-pounder who will meet the varsity's King Holmes. Crimson captain Joe Noble, his record now 8-1, will take on John Moyle...
...freshman hockey team is nearing the end of another remarkable season. With losses only to B.C. and Colby, it has now won 16 out of 18 contests, with an unofficial League record of 4-0. The powerful Yardlings have tallied better than eight goals per game, while holding the opposition to an average...
...Talk. A longtime foe of esthetes, Benton insists that "dough is the only thing that really inspires an artist-I guess because artists never have much of it." Clad in loafers, blue jeans and an open-neck flannel shirt, he labors a strenuous eight-hour day seven days a week, allows only his black-and-silver German shepherd in his studio because "he never criticizes what I am doing." All the other distractions, including pipes, of which he has more than 100 models, are taboo during work hours. Instead, he chews tobacco...
...George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books...
...rumrunning, narcotics, bookmaking, insurance. Wall Street bucket shops, trade unions, racing stables, bail bonds-that he was quite unable to count his money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying: "I've got to go home.'' His suspected murderer beat...