Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work revolves about an extraordinarily fascinating and complex young woman named Virginia, who feels that she is "an enormous zero in the dead center of nothing." She is tormented by "three white night-mares," all of whom are personified on stage; and might well have echoed Shakespeare's Macbeth: "O, full of scorpions is my mind...
...gate pulled away and the race began, Del Miller watched unhappily from the clubhouse. His mood changed fast. As the pacers whipped past the three-quarter mark, his O'Brien Hanover was in the lead with Thorpe Hanover close behind. Only a final burst to second place by Tommy Winn's Flying Time marred a straight one-two finish for Miller's Tar Heel colts. Their first and third took $67,310.62 of the total purse. Also in the money in fourth and fifth place: Adios' sons Raider Frost and Adios Paul. Quipped the New York...
...Named for a great, grey English race horse who retired to a rich old American studhood in 1788. Messenger forefathered such thoroughbreds as Man o' War, War Admiral and Seabiscuit, plus 99% of all U.S. trotters and pacers. Messenger died at 28 in 1808, is buried near the fairways of Long Island's Piping Rock Country Club...
...Executive Vice President Harry Winston Bradbury, 62, a British-born career coalman, was elected president of Pennsylvania's money-losing Glen Alden Corp., biggest U.S. producer of anthracite (1957 sales of $62 million brought a net loss of $3,494,000). He replaces Francis O Case, 63, inactive since April, when Bradbury moved in from the presidency of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Case had approved of the plan to merge Glen Alden with List Industries, successor to RKO Theaters Corp. and owner of 38½% of Glen Alden stock. But last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court enjoined the plan...
Replaceable Cells. Estimating that 96% of auto batteries have to be discarded while they still have one or more good cells, Aut-O-Cel Co. of Des Moines put on sale a replaceable, plastic-encased battery cell that can be assembled in 19 different battery sizes. When the battery goes bad, a garageman replaces the dead cell. Price: $7.47 per cell...