Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their sixth wedding anniversary-their first together-Trumpeter Harry James and Cinemactress Betty Grable (who seldom misses a day at the races when not making pictures) gave each other six-week-old thoroughbred colts...
Milk Bottles. In eleven years, Chicago's hulking, six-foot-two Dave Garroway, 36, has traveled from NBC page boy, amateur astronomer, Navy ensign and staff announcer-to broadcasting eleven hours a week over Chicago's WMAQ. On each of his four radio and TV shows Garroway exhibits a somewhat different facet of his extravert personality...
Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 3 sides). The six parts of this suite were originally written for voice and piano; in this transcription, Violinist Stern catches every flicker of flame arid fillip of flavor. Falla at his Spanish best. Recording: excellent...
...short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of the words. Last week, at the season's halfway mark, his New York Yankees were leading the American League by six games...
Connie Mack's hustling Philadelphia A's kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games out of six...