Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Ed Wadsworth, at number six, had an easy time of it, winning 3 to 0 from John Beckforth. Each of the other matches went to the fourth set, as Charlie Hamm, at number two, Gerry Emmett at number three, and seventh and eight men, Fred Vinton and John Davis all scored 3 to 1 wins...
Died. Walter Carey Lindley, 77, crusty, scholarly federal judge (for 36 years), since 1949 a member of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; in Danville, Ill. Appointed a district judge in 1922, Republican Lindley in 1939 imposed $20,000 in fines and court costs of more than half a million on General Motors and three subsidiaries for antitrust violations, seven years later found the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and subsidiaries guilty of conspiring to monopolize part of the nation's food business...
...deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure from Madame Simone, one Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor friend, once again you have understood absolutely nothing!" The third abstention, on the seventh ballot, allowed crafty Parliamentarian Simone to invoke a tie-breaking rule: as acting President, she cast two votes, and Novelist Megret, 53, had his Prix Femina. Cried the done-in Duchesse: "I am proud to have voted against eroticism...
Jaeger and Miller thus are the new-comers to the top six, while Slichter has slipped down to seventh place...
...first five of Larry Sears, Charlie Hamm, Gerry Emmet, Henry Cortesi and Pete Lund, the lineup will remain unchanged, but sixth man Charlie Poletti will probably be forced out of action by an ear infection. Ed Wadsworth, Fred Vinton and John Davis will move up to the sixth, seventh and eighth positions, while Wally Stimson will fill the ninth spot if Poletti is unable to play. Vinton topped Davis by one point in a trial match yesterday to take over eighth position...