Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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They even looked good when their 400-meter relay team came in a close second to the British in a qualifying heat. Then they began to sound more like Russians at Lake Success. The British, it seemed, had changed lanes, so they had to be disqualified. But the British protested; everyone had changed lanes, they said. Officials agreed, ordered the heat rerun. "Nyet!" cried the Russians; they would walk out of the meet rather than re-run a heat they had already won. Finally, the Soviet Embassy made a concession: "We will contact Moscow immediately for instructions." Next...
...Philadelphia, Pitcher Bob Lemon of Cleveland became the majors' first 20-game winner. His relief stint stopped the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-4, brought his team into a second-place tie with the New York Yankees, 1½ games behind Detroit. Lemon's record...
Born. To Maestro Leopold Stokowski, 68, and Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 26, his third wife (he is her second husband): their first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Weight...
...summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record for RCA Victor's second-string Bluebird label...
...concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before. In the Fifth...