Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hell I'm complacent!" was Second Baseman Jackie Robinson's reaction next...
...Lusty Song, sometimes fractious, found Miller a pleasant driving companion. In the first, heat (best two-out-of-three mile-long heats wins), Miller sent Lusty Song to the lead before the halfway mark, stayed there, and won by a full-sized length from Star's Pride. The second heat, an hour later, started out like the first. Lusty Song had the lead at the quarter-mile mark, held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made...
Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass, had spent six weeks warming up for her second try at the English Channel. Six boatsful of reporters and radiomen were ready to follow her across. Shirley May herself was pretty confident. At 17, she was a year older, twelve pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
...Australian Davis Cup team got a rude shock when Sweden's big, blond Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman and veteran Jack Bromwich in two of the four singles matches. After his second victory, proud Swedes piled out of the stands to treat Bergelin to an old Swedish hissa (a toss in the air). Then the Aussies settled down and won the deciding match. Their next opponent...
Born. To Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, 24, heiress presumptive to the British throne, and Prince Philip, 29: a second child, first daughter; the new princess becomes third in line for the British crown (after her mother and 21-month-old brother, Prince Charles...