Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the U.S., in 1944, had its two most colorless tennis champions in two decades. For the winner of the women's title was California's strawberry blonde, Pauline Betz, whose strokes are less brilliant than those of any first-ten competitor, but who rarely makes a mistake. She is also good-looking...
...Passionate Believer." Jack Knight inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. He has achieved an Akron monopoly by absorbing his Scripps-Howard competitor, gone on to acquire the Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. The three papers operate independently of one another. Knight is currently among those most often mentioned as a likely purchaser of the late Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News, but he disclaims any ambition to become another Hearst or Howard...
...Radio, the press's light-swift competitor, got its biggest break and made the most of it (see RADIO). As it almost always must, radio got the jump on the Big Story. Then it proceeded to steal the show. U.S. newspapers got much of their eyewitness copy from radio reporters...
...held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski in the '303. A frequent attendant at Toscanini's rehearsals, concerts and broadcasts, Stokowski publicly expressed his tremendous admiration for Toscanini. Toscanini, who seldom in his life has had a good word for a competitor who could possibly be considered a rival, recommended Stokowski to replace him when he decided to take a vacation from NBC in 1941. But the seeds of trouble had already been sown the year before, when Toscanini's South American tour took the bloom off Stokowski's later...
...Unteachable Gambler. Then as now, Spaatz was a shy and silent yet strangely gregarious man, who loved to have people around him, and could open up and talk fluently-especially on air power. At games he is an insatiable (and unteachable) gambler, and a hard competitor. He plays...