Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Born. To Hephzibah Menuhin Nicholas, 20; and Rancher Lindsay Nicholas, 24; a Leap-Year son; in Australia. Name: Kronrod George. Hephzibah is the ex-piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin who married Lindsay Nicholas' sister Nola. Divorced recently was the third of Papa Moshe Menuhin's musical children, childless Yaltah (TIME, Feb. 19). Said Moshe then: "Two complete successes out of the marriages of three children is as much as any father can expect these days...
...letter to his stockholders, George Washington Hill told them in effect that they would either pay him on his own terms or he would quit. And he certainly had a case. During the 14 years of his presidency, stockholders have received a third of a billion dollars in dividends...
Kirland was off to a good start as Al Mathis, Bill Rines, and Bill Jay sped to victory in the medley in 1:28.8, and Mike Brody and A1 Conger followed this up with a one-two finish in the 50. MalRowe and Teny Facio copped a second and third in the dive, and Bill Jay and Brody swept the century in 58 flat...
Mathis and Eberie gave the Harvard titlists a first and third in the backstroke, won in 1:3.2, and it was all over but the shouting. The Deacons could afford to throw the breastroke and enter a slow relay foursome, which was still good enough...
...running for consolation position were Dick Aldrich and Tudor Gardiner. Aldrich was finally put out by Kern of Cornell in a decision, and Gardiner fell out when he was defeated by Lehr of Lehigh by a Wolf of Pennsylvania whom Gardiner had defeated earlier this year. Wolf was given third place...