Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just after taking off from Florianópolis, plane 2023, a Brazilian air force C-47 of the Correio Aereo Nacional, radioed back that it had run into heavy overcast, was going on instruments. Aboard were 13 servicemen, nine civilians including four women and two children, a crew of six. Plane 2023 was on a routine flight to Porto Alegre and then to Uruguaiana in the neighboring state of Rio Grande...
...Hollywood, Cinemactress Linda Darnell, 27, and Cameraman Peverell Marley, 47, who have been married for six years, with no children of their own, legally adopted Charlotte Mildred ("Lola") Marley, 17 months, who has been living with them since she was two months...
Haydn's gaily rippling score had lost little of its sparkle in an arrangement for two pianos. The staging moved apace, with six zanies shifting the scenery in amusing dance patterns while the play went on. No voices were outstanding, but Haydn's rollicking ensembles and the well-rehearsed way the Lemonaders sang them were the hit of the show. Next biggest hit: the eminently singable, notably contemporary English libretto of onetime Berlin Music Critic John Gutman, who now has a job in Manhattan's Wall Street. Sample, from a quintet pondering the advisability of admitting...
...been a topsy-turvy tournament, played over a killing course in heat up to 96°. Six former champions (including Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson) could not place among the first 51 at the halfway point and were eliminated. So was Jimmy Demaret, usually one of big-league golf's deadliest men. Middlecoff's winning 286 was two strokes over par, a rarity in this par-smashing age. The tall (6 ft. 2 in., 180 _lb.) Tennessean pro, who looks a little' like Baseballer Ted Williams, had won by playing safe; he was in the rough...
Well Taught. The difference was Princeton-Cornell's battery of two head coaches and two assistant coaches, including Cornell's venerable (85) Jack Moakley. His well-tutored pupils won six events. In his 50 years as track coach at Cornell, Jack Moakley had developed more championship track squads than he could remember. But he won even more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice...