Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placed a premium on military-hero types. Michigan Republican Charles Ernest ("Chuck") Chamberlain, 39, skippered a subchaser in the Atlantic during World War II, is favored over scholarly Democratic Incumbent Don Hayworth, 58, in the state's Sixth District. Running for the seat vacated in Michigan's Seventh District by Republican Veteran Jesse Wolcott, retiring at 63, is is G.O.P. Candidate Robert J. Mclntosh, 34, Air Force fighter pilot, who flew 31 missions over Europe during World War II, was shot down four days after Dday, spent the summer of 1944 working with the French underground. Mclntosh...
Today, however, as the miserly old seventh Nizam of Hyderabad approaches his 71st birthday, the blessings of the beggar in the forest have run out, not only for the Nizam's family, but for those of all the once-great princes of India. They are shorn of their royal power, and by the end of this month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars...
...convention in Harrisburg, Pa., good news came from Hungary. "The Presidential Council of the Supreme Court," growled Radio Budapest, "has declared Lajos Ordass not guilty for lack of evidence." The news was particularly gratifying to Manhattan's Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, re-elected president last week for his seventh term. Last summer Dr. Fry, chairman of the central committee of the World Council of Churches was in Galyatetö, near Budapest, for a meeting of the committee (TIME, Aug. 13). Rehabilitation was in the air and the Reds were courting the good opinion of the West; Dr. Fry seized...
...might have said something about it. But the fact was that he had just signed a -new contract to manage the Yankees for another two years at a fat $80,000 a year. What were 66 years to a man who had just won his sixth World Series and seventh pennant in eight years as the Yankees' manager...
...pitched a perfect game in the major leagues since 1922, when Charlie Robert son of the Chicago White Sox won 2-0 over the Detroit Tigers; Larsen's was the seventh per fect game in all major-league history. Most colorful was the one between the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators in 1917, which was only recently declared "perfect" by baseball's official historians. The first Senator to bat actually reached first base, but he was walked by Pitcher Babe Ruth, who was prompt ly thrown out of the game for clouting Plate Umpire Brick Owens...