Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Kitty Foyle, Author Christopher Morley hit a novelist's jackpot: a bestseller and a Class A movie. It was that familiar, marketable love story of the 30s about a poor working girl (25% Irish) and a Philadelphia scion (seventh-generation Main Line). The well-paced narrative (girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy does not marry girl) was not helped by the predictability of the incidents nor the faded charm of slick writing about young love. On TV, Kitty was just an old-fashioned tearjerker with not enough strength left to jerk the tears...
James Cook was a farmer's son, the sixth or seventh of nine-his mother was never quite sure which. A grocer's apprentice as a boy, he later manned coal barges, enlisted in the Royal Navy and worked his way up, most notably as a cartographer in Wolfe's campaign up the St. Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti...
Stewed Fruit. Irked by this Pakhtoon-foolery, Pakistan last week effectively closed the historic Khyber Pass, through which passes 80% of Afghanistan's external trade, including shipments to the U.S. of pistachio nuts, wool, and karakul fur (which becomes "Persian lamb" on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue). At the pass, Pakistani customs stopped grape, peach and pomegranate-laden trucks and told them to await clearance from Karachi-which, they blandly confided, would "take some time." While the truckers fretted, the fruit rotted...
...just presented the Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
...first spring training, he arrived in a squeal of brakes, driving his bus, hopped out, donned a uniform and joined the practice. But now Busch spends much less time with his disappointing team. Last year the Cardinals finished sixth; this year they are fighting to keep out of seventh place. After investing $7,800,000 on buying the team and improving the ballpark (changed from Sportsman's Park to Busch Stadium), Busch desperately wanted a winner. When he did not get it, out went Manager Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, in came Manager Harry ("The Hat") Walker, a hustling player...