Word: six-day
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...many golf tournaments an unknown from nowhere steals the show. In last week's performance, however, the headliners hogged the spotlight from beginning to end. When the field of 120 (including Shute) narrowed down to two, the survivors of the six-day elimination matches were Byron Nelson and Henry Picard, the two top-ranking pros in the U. S. (on the basis of their scores in the circuit of P.G.A. tournaments this year...
...television station W2XBS, after a not-too-impressive month of scheduled telecasting of variety, short plays, films and sport to the 900-odd sets in its 50-mile radius, announced that Referee Donovan's kindly wash was coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs $5,000 a mile...
...three days, 5) robbed a filling station, 6) eluded posses in half a dozen counties, 7) robbed a second filling station, 8) tried to rob a third, walked into policemen's arms, walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from his mount, upturned him, soundly paddy-whacked him. Pa then took Aubrey into town, handed him over to the police, explained : "All he needed was a good whuppin...
Pickets disappeared from Harvard Square at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon when Georgian employees went back to work after a six-day strike...
...will get around the obstacles that have previously prevented publication of Tropic of Cancer in the U. S. is still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...