Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...
...addition, centerfielder John Getch, one of the strongest hitters on last season's nine, has had about as much trouble as Ted Williams in getting started this year. He will be dropped to the eighth position in the Crimson's order today...
...Sound. Imbrie's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra shone in a galaxy of impressive premieres: Ernest Bloch's Quintet No. 2 for Piano and Strings, a vigorous, passionate work whose rich coloration took on a special sheen in the sonically clean, echoless hall; Darius Milhaud's Eighth Symphony, describing the flow of the Rhone to the sea, which happily combined the gusty exuberance of the Frenchman's early works with the sunny lyricism of his later ones; Roger Sessions' serene, atmospheric Quintet with Two Violas, performed without its third movement, which the composer was unable...
...Donald Slichter, 57, was elected president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., eighth largest life insurance company in the U.S. (insurance in force: $9 billion). A graduate engineer (University of Wisconsin, '22) and amateur gardener (roses), Slichter, brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat...
...eighth, a walk to Bob Clearly, two Eagle errors, a triple to center by George Harrington, a single by Frank Saia, and two very wild pitches by B.C.'s George Giersch enabled the varsity to tie up the contest...