Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system to expert and beginner alike, placed Charles Goren on the same shaky pedestal from which he had toppled Culbertson. Writer Goren had to maintain his position at the card table, and he did it with the help of Helen Sobel, his partner for 19 years. Goren calls Sobel, fourth-ranking player in total master points (4,198), "the greatest woman bridge player in history" - and few male experts would dispute that opinion...
Thrown out of Russia last week: Associated Press Correspondent Roy Essoyan, 39, the fourth American to be expelled since April 1956. Essoyan's official sin: "A rude violation of Soviet censorship." Best A.P. guess was that the "violation" was Essoyan's dispatch in August saying that Khrushchev's proposal to refer the Mideast crisis to the U.N. was a "major retreat...
Among the runners-up, Dean of U.S. Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright picked up enough votes to place a fourth building, Manhattan's still unfinished Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in 18th place. Adler & Sullivan added St. Louis' 1890 Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since...
Matsushita himself came up by frugality and work that was hard even by Japanese standards. Born in Osaka, son of a merchant who lost his kimono selling rice, Konosuke quit school in the fourth grade to go to work in a bicycle shop. At 17 he saw the electric streetcars come in. concluded the future lay in electricity, got a job with the Osaka Electric Light Co. His lack of education blocked promotion, so he saved and borrowed $98 to open a factory in his home...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 46, multimillionaire sportsman, and third wife Jean Harvey Vanderbilt, 21: their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: Nicholas Harvey. Weight...