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...Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
...more acutely than any other of our Colonial colleges. When the old print was made it had already moved 9in 1756) from near Trinity Church to the outskirts what is now Park Place. The outskirts to which the college moved in 1857 was the region around Madison Avenue and 40th Street...
Yachtsmen surmised that Stoertebeker, sighted once before and sailing east on the 40th parallel, was by last week about 600 miles behind the leaders who should reach port this week but who, because of handicaps, may not win the race...
...week, all 23 of the bird dogs which their owners considered the best in the U. S. had had a chance to follow their noses for quail over the clover and corn-stubble fields of the Hobart Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., and the judges in the 40th annual national bird-dog championship field trials, unable to name a winner, picked four for a runoff...
...year-old Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor who has shepherded Tennessee Episcopalians since 1898. A onetime (1916-22) chairman of his House of Bishops and a onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop of his Church, Bishop Gailor was lavishly honored by Church & State a year and a half ago upon the 40th anniversary of his consecration, the 25th of his chancellorship of the University of the South at Sewanee. A onetime vice president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, he has quietly refrained from splashing the front pages of newspapers with his social and economic views. But last week this venerable...