Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...Kenary, defensive halfback for three years, is considering an offer to play pro football for the Chicago Bears. Yesterday afternoon the Bears drafted him in the twenty-eighth round of the first National-American Football League Draft. This merely gives the Chicago team the exclusive rights to dicker for Kenary's services...
...Massachusetts League of Women Voters will convene at Radcliffe tomorrow and Thursday for their twenty-eighth School of International Relations. Among the speakers at the two day sessions will be Donald C. McKay Ph.D. '32, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer Ph.D. '39, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...
...they had received no raises since 1948, had not been asked to take a cut. There was a more important reason than rising costs: the lackluster Sun had stood still journalistically for decades. At its death, circulation was 261,000, barely 4,000 more than in 1926; it was eighth in Manhattan's circulation field of nine. The combined circulations of the World-Telegram (342,000) and the Sun, Publisher Dewart said, were "enough to assure the economic stability of one newspaper but not enough for two . . ." Advertisers, sensing the Sun's slow eclipse, had dropped more than...