Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson workhorse Jack Wallace coralled his fifth win of the current season Wednesday 7 to 4 at Newport, Rhode Island, but the big right-hander had to have help in the ninth when Melville PT Boat pushed across two quick scores, loaded the bases, and had the tying run on first base...
...closest contest of the afternoon saw Jim Robert, Crimson number four man, wear down Jack Corfu in a 14 game opening set and come back to win the next two easily and take the match, 6-8, 6-1, 6-2. In the fifth singles, Tom Frothingham vanquished Phil Duffy of the visitors...
...there were some who also wanted a look at America's victorious leaders. The Chicago Daily News clamored for Eisenhower's return, suggested parades down Fifth Avenue and Michigan Boulevard. Said the News: "General Eisenhower's visit would be like the seventh-inning stretch in a critical ball game...
...Forty-Fifth. Indians in the 45th Division staged a war dance at Camp Patrick Henry, Va. just before the outfit headed overseas. In July 1943, the 45th landed in Sicily. "The Thunderbirds," a National Guard outfit from Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico, had been well and lengthily trained. The 45th did all right in Sicily...
...Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy...