Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's National Amateur was to be held at the Seattle Country Club, almost in his own backyard; Westland, now a grey-templed 47, decided to take his eighth crack at it. He had also decided on a crack at politics as a Republican candidate for Congress from Washington's Second District. Instead of practicing putts, he had been out buttonholing supporters and cruising around Everett in a car covered with signs proclaiming: "You Can Trust Jack Westland...
Coco, like many a musical amateur, forgets how the songs go after the first phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by watching for a pretty girl to come in, then gives a long, deliberate wolf whistle. If the girl's escort looks angrily around, Coco screams with laughter...
...Father won a D.S.O. in the Boer War, died in 1947; mother, an Edwardian beauty, died in 1941. "True blue-blood," descended on her father's side from John Churchill, first Duke to Marlborough (1650-1722); on her mother's from the Earls of Abingdon (the present eighth earl is Clarissa's cousin...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...Around the House. In Knoxville, Tenn., Bakery Worker Charles D. Langston, 140 lbs., sued his wife (who weighs "one-eighth of a ton") for divorce, charged that she 1) made him prepare breakfast and dress the baby, 2) beat him until his legs were "raw meat," 3) demanded that he rinse the clothes four times when he did the Friday-night washing, although "this was not a sanitary idea of hers, but merely to harass...