Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Miami, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias over the field (in six major 1950 tournaments), to become the leading money-winning (a record $14,800) woman golfer...
...threemile, six-furlong race at Sandown Park near London, Queen Elizabeth's five-year-old steeplechaser Manicou romped in by six lengths to win the $1,120 purse. The Queen stepped beaming into the winner's circle, patted her horse, gave a well-done to jockey and trainer. All in all, she appeared to have recovered from the blow of last fortnight, when her other steeplechaser, Monaveen, broke his leg in a race and had to be destroyed...
...been filling in since the death of Charles G. Ross (TIME, Dec. 18), bowed out with a little quip. Said Early, now a vice president of Pullman, Inc.: "If it was [a job as] a dollar-a-year man, I figure the President owes me about four and six-tenths cents...
...Assurance. Last week, after a six-month study of the evidence, the 18-man Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association published a cautious verdict on BCG. The report conceded that the vaccine, properly administered, is harmless, and probably desirable among nurses, doctors, laboratory workers, members of families where tuberculosis is present. But, the report warned, "undue reliance must not be placed on the vaccine as a protective measure at the expense of established measures of control...
Altogether, Landon has recorded 25 Haydn symphonies, six Masses, Haydn's most famed oratorio, The Creation, and some chamber works, with Mozart's neglected opera Idomeneo thrown in for good measure. With profits from record sales, the society has published the first of 63 volumes of Haydn's collected works. Landon (and seven other stockholders) can now survey a corporation which will gross $150,000 this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society...