Word: 26th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is TIME'S 26th Christmas, an occasion for rejoicing-and for sending all of you, for all of us, my best wishes for a merry, old-fashioned Christmas...
...Local opinion was that West Point had been incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...
...Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
...believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter pilot, killed last April in a jet-plane crash...
...26th, he took a birdie (on a conceded 7-ft. putt), to become U.S. Amateur golf champion, eleven-and-ten, the greatest winner's margin since the first National Amateur...