Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Record. Edmund died in 1949 and Louis in 1950. The company is now in the hands of Edmund's son Louis, president (and the father of the Paris bureau's John), and Louis' son Edgar, vice president. Modest and shy as their fathers, Louis, 56. and Edgar, 52, have added two more weeklies to their family's tidy empire: Supermarket News (49,499) and Electronic News (21,633). All but Electronic News, founded last year, are in the black...
...play-an immediate box-office hit -has a self-contained narrative, a clear beginning and end. It is the explicit record of a man's physical self-conquest, literally step by step, which is in turn the measure of his inner toughening, adjustment and growth. Of F.D.R.'s relation to politics and public affairs, there is no more than the sounds of tuning up; in his relations with his family, he seems a little too conventionally gay, rationally irritable and distantly intimate. Sunrise at Campobello is most successfully concerned with F.D.R.'s relations to himself. It thus...
...turned in a superlative performance on Mrs. Allie Ruben's Stephanotis, kept the Irish-bred bay out of traffic trouble in a 16-horse field and won the $35,050 Bougainvillea Handicap by a widening length. Same day he brought in another winner and placed twice, pushing his record to 23 winners (plus 13 seconds, 11 thirds) out of 88 mounts in Hialeah's first 14 days. He is running at last year's pace?and last year's pace, a grand total of 341 firsts, including an alltime record of 43 stakes races, made Willie Hartack...
...Elliott, 19, ground out his second better-than-four-minute-mile in a week. Elliott was clocked in 3:58.7, just 2 yds. ahead of his countryman Merv Lincoln (3:59). But winning was a disappointment: what Elliott had wanted to do was break John Landy's Australian record...
...Running as usual only to win, Ireland's Ron Delany at the Boston Garden won his 18th consecutive indoor mile. Delany, who has the stuff to outsprint just about every mile record on the books, was perfectly satisfied to finish in 4:05.3, far in front of the pack...