Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ricordi's European copyrights on the works of Verdi will expire, to be followed before too long by the works of Puccini.*The firm may then become largely a record company (present U.S. distributors: RCA Victor, Mercury and Westminster). Artists-and-repertory chief of its burgeoning record division: Carlo Emanuele ("Nanni") Ricordi, 26, great-great-great grandson of Giovanni...
...North Sydney, athletic (5 ft. 8 in., 151 Ibs.) Sylvia thrashed to world butterfly records for 220 yds. and 200 meters in 2:40.3. At the national championships in Hobart, Tasmania, she chased Australia's lisa Konrads so closely in the 880-yd. free style that 14-year-old lisa broke her own world record, explained: 'Syl was on me tail." Last week, at her farewell appearance in Melbourne, versatile Sylvia tackled the individual medley event (requiring backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and free-style laps), set world records at 440 yds. and 400 meters with a 5:41.1 clocking...
...three weeks ago. Pettit holds a long lead in the individual scoring race, at week's end had scored 1,886 points, was averaging 29 a game, needed only a trifling 17 in each of the remaining seven regular season games to smash the alltime single season scoring record of 2,001 set last year by Detroit's George Yardley...
...holds the other guy off so I have time to take a shot," he explains. "Martin rifles the ball with such accuracy on the fast break that I get to it just at the right time." But in basketball there is no substitute for scoring points at a record clip, and Bob Pettit is doing just that...
Even the Lakers set an N.B.A. record for a losing score...