Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Elwood Cooke of Portland, Ore., a steady though unimaginative performer who sprang from 28th place to seventh in U. S. ranking last year and three weeks ago sprang a surprise on the brass hats of the United States Lawn Tennis Association when he reached the finals at Wimbledon and then put up a stubborn five-set struggle before letting Bobby Riggs take the world's No. 1 title...
Last week, however, when the sun had set on the seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only...
...century ago, P. T. Barnum produced The Drunkard to show the tragic effects of drink. In 1933 The Drunkard was revived in Los Angeles to show the comic effects of time. Last week the Los Angeles revival went into its seventh year,* breaking all known theatrical records for a continuous (seven-days-a-week...
Thirty years ago in Russia, not far from Kovno, a Jewish peasant woman awaited her seventh baby. When her time came, she had mild labor pains, but nothing happened. Months later a doctor suggested an operation. She refused. Years passed, the family emigrated to the U. S., settled in Detroit...
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor, 8 sides). First modern recording of a work not frequently played which nonetheless stands up alongside the Schubert Eighth ("Unfinished") and Seventh ("Of Heavenly Lengths") symphonies...