Word: seventh
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...former Governor Roy Turner, but not far enough ahead to escape a runoff. Facing each other in a runoff for governor will be William O. Coe, Oklahoma City attorney, and Raymond Gary of Madill, president pro tem of the Oklahoma senate's last session. Willie Roberta Murray ran seventh in the field of 16 to succeed her husband, Governor Johnston Murray (in Oklahoma a governor may not succeed himself...
...three-year-old Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, the only full symphony orchestra in the *Army,- had just won itself and the occupying forces some new friends. Their success was no surprise to orchestra members. "We are," says one, "the best lowest-paid orchestra in the world." No Army brass, and little of its rank and file, thought in the spring of 1952 that the occupation forces needed a symphony orchestra. But, according to the story now favored by the orchestra members, the Seventh Army's Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy got tired of being ribbed by his German friends...
Salon info Saloon. Desperate Scenery is as far from Paris Original as a saloon is from a salon. It is the seventh volume in a series called Items on the Grand Account, 63-year-old Elliot Paul's leisurely recital of his life and times. Paul was 19 and bumming through the Far West on close to his last dime in the summer of 1910, when the Jackson Lake Dam, spanning the Snake River in northwest Wyoming, went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy...
...than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...
Headquarters for one of the biggest entertainment enterprises in the U.S. are two crowded cubbyholes at the back of Super Cut-Rate Drugs on Seventh Street, N.W., in downtown Washington. The men who run it are two brothers from Hagerstown, Md., Irvin and Israel Feld, who opened the store in 1939 and spread out into music with the ease of an Alka-Seltzer foaming through a glass of water...