Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gorham, who finished second as a freshman and second as a sophomore, ran in the lead with last year's winner, have Truesdell, for the first half of the two-mile course. Then Gorham pulled away with the wind at his back and won by over 100 yards, Leverett the defending champion, had to settle for third though...
...revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin Ice, Sun Valley Serenade), which grossed $25 million, and produced more than...
...SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR by Sam Greenlee. 248 pages. Baron. $4.95. A CIA "house nigger" drops out to train black teen-agers as "Freedom Fighters." A schizophrenic first novel by a young black, the book blends James Bond parody with wit and rage...
FOLLOW THE RUNNING GRASS by Georgia McKinley. 244 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $4.95. First novel about a Texas dynasty from pioneer grandfather to would-be-liberal grandson. Overdone...
GEORGE W. CABLE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SOUTHERN HERETIC by Louis D. Rubin Jr. 304 pages. Pegasus. $6.95. Cable was the first post-Civil War novelist to deal forthrightly with racial injustice. This fine biography tells how the controversy that he stirred up turned him from a passionate witness into a confectioner of costume romance...