Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining four victories were in four games. Number three man Tim Gallwey played erratically in beating Tom Kehler, 17-16, 15-9, 4-15, 12-15, 15-4. Fourth man Fred Vinton topped Jim Jennings, 6-15, 15-18, 15-11, 15-7. At seven, Charlie Poletti beat Bardyl Tirana, 18-15, 15-6, 14-15, 15-2, and in eighth position Wally Stimson rallied to down Bob Seabring...
...Advocate has a number of interesting critical tenets. To qualify as an Advocate editor, a young man chooses as parents second-generation nouveaux, preferably the youngest and thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from...
...complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
...elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which the blacks hold 14 seats to represent 6,000,000 people and the whites have the same number for 60,000. "We offer the Europeans the hand of friendship," he says, "but let them make no mistake about our determination to win our freedom...