Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next year's captain of the soccer team will be one of nine lettermen. Loring Batchelder, Rick Drake, Mike Scully, Dick Saul, Jon Spivak, Bill Gilbert, Franny Chen, Dick Wallace, and Jim Bell are all in line for the 1949 leadership...
Many Switches. At New Haven, where his Yale team bowed to Princeton last week, roly-poly Coach Herman Hickman complained: "The way the boys switch in & out, I spend half my time seeing if there are nine, twelve or 14 men in the game ... I need an assistant...
Steady Ben Hogan, who weighs a mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...last July, Dr. Bazy & associates had operated on 47 patients; nine had gangrene and ten had arteries so clogged that gangrene would probably have developed. Eight died, all of them advanced cases of gangrene. Since July, Dr. Bazy and his team have performed about two operations a week-unplugging the main abdominal artery as well as arteries in the arms & legs. Up to last week there had been no new deaths; out of 100 cases, 65 have improved. In operations on arteries of the arms & legs improvement has been almost 100%, says Dr. Bazy...
...After nine months of investigation, the Securities & Exchange Commission shelved its attempt to revoke the securities trading license of Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. SEC had little choice. It had hoped to prove that Otis & Co. had fraudulently wriggled out of a deal to underwrite a $10 million issue of Kaiser-Frazer stock. But the only way it could do so.was by proving that Otis & Co. had put Lawyer James Masterson up to filing the suit against K-F which had enabled Otis to call off the deal. Last month, a U.S. district court ruled that Eaton...