Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup poll, measuring the effect of Henry Wallace's candidacy on the popular vote this week, found it almost nil. The pollsters reported that, if the election were held now with Henry in the race, Harry Truman would beat Tom Dewey (46% to 41%) and would wallop Bob Taft (51% to 31%). They also reported that Ike Eisenhower, with no help from Henry, would defeat the President, 47% to 40%. (In none of the three trial heats did Wallace get more than 8% of the vote...
...Things were getting a little hot for Feng, and he escaped to Russia. In Moscow, he attended classes in revolutionary technique under Karl Radek. A year later, he returned to China and went about organizing a private army. But when it looked as though General Chiang Kai-shek would beat them, he threw over the Communists and joined Chiang...
John Spivak, leading Varsity sprinter, will have it easy. All he has to do is beat veteran Barney Ewell, who cleaned up in the IC4A's and nationals for Penn State 10 years ago and is still going strong. Coach Mikkola is looking past the K. of C. carnival to February 7, when his Crimson machine gets its first formal workout of the season against Princeton and Army at West Point...
...ever get him over a barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby...
...South Orange, N.J., Jake for the first time had played the aggressive "big game" that made him the world's best amateur. Said Jake later: "The audience was down close and I could feel them pulling for me. They rooted me in." He beat Riggs 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. It wasn't a matter of getting wise to Bobby's cagey game, he said, because he always plays his own strength rather than an opponent's weakness. But he did give Riggs credit for one thing: "Bobby is able to adjust himself...