Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headline news of the week was that a steel strike had been postponed-if not averted entirely. For an economy which could stand no rocking of the boat, the bigger news was that the President's three-man fact-finding committee had come out decisively against a fourth-round wage increase...
...September 1948, Paris cartoonists pictured a mousy little man rushing to his buggy with whip and stethoscope in hand. France had just formed its fourth government in seven weeks. The cartoonists knew that the new Premier, Henri Queuille, had been a country doctor, but, although he had been a cabinet minister many times, they did not know much else about him. M. Queuille is in fact a man who does not hurry if he can help...
...aging and ailing champions, Assault and Stymie, in Aqueduct's Edgemere Handicap. Assault, fourth-highest moneywinner in turf history ($672,520), closed gamely despite a patched-up leg and finished third. Stymie, still the world's top moneywinning horse ($911,335), was rapturously applauded as he went to the paddock for his first race since he was retired with a cracked sesamoid bone 14 months ago. After finishing dead last, Stymie was still cheered. In keeping with the quaint custom at New York tracks, the boos were for Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode My Request, the winner...
What Is Truth? Edith Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...
Married. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 48, oldtime crooner (Your Time Is My Time), now a Hollywood character actor (I Remember Mama); and Eleanor Kathleen Norris, 21, University of California ('49) psychology graduate; he for the fourth time; in Oakland, Calif...