Word: sefton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck Luckman got a bargain because the cosmetics business has looked none too pretty lately. (Sales have dropped so much that many a company has had to take back merchandise from retailers.) And after 30 years of hard work, Ayer's president and owner, Mrs. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, sixtyish, had had enough...
Amateur Athletic Federation meets once more. Official world's record: 14 ft., 11 in., set in 1938 by California's Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton...
...thanked them cheerily, told them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...
...Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than the world's record set in 1937 by Bill Sefton & Earle Meadows...