Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiang held four conferences. From these meetings, plus Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor's separate talks with Nationalist military leaders came an understanding that when and if the Red Chinese agree to a "dependable" ceasefire, or at least refrain from acts of aggression for months in a row, Chiang will start gradually reducing his forces on the offshore islands...
...total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that Inao had already won 16 games. Inao solved that problem with a late-season burst, winning 13 games in a row...
...York Herald Tribune and is syndicated in 200 newspapers here and abroad, and from the books and other articles he writes, he receives an income handsome enough to surround himself with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily...
...since 1925, when Pittsburgh did it to Washington, had a team come off the floor to win after losing three of the first four series games. Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly...
...stepped Edwin Joel Thomas, 59, president (since 1940), chief executive (since 1956 and longtime protege of Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, who became honorary chairman of the board after 58 years with Goodyear. Up to president from executive vice president moved Russel De-Young, 49, the third president in a row to be tapped from the production ranks. Litchfield, one of the rubber industry's most indestructible leaders, picked Eddie Thomas out of an Akron high school in 1916, made him his personal assistant and trained the young mail carrier's son so thoroughly that in a few years...