Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan's Chuck Fonville, 21, the world's best shotputter, tossed the 16-lb. ball 54 feet, 7 inches to win the N.C.A.A. crown for a second year. His closest competitor: Discus-Thrower Gordien, who shot-puts as a sideline...
...Future has built itself (at $1 a copy in the U.S., $1.20 abroad) a circulation of 20,000. Patterned after FORTUNE and aimed at the managerial class, Future's slick paper and color layouts make it the best dressed among Britain's dowdy magazines. (But its chief competitor, Contact Books, which gets around the government rules by donning stiff covers and calling itself a book, has better writing, a broader editorial outlook...
...closest competitor today, thin-faced Ted Atkinson, 31, is known as The Slasher because of the way he flails the whip. Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree...
...Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
...Princeton and Rutgers have already raced. The Tigers, who boast only three returnees from 1947, dropped their opener to a strong Navy boat last week, while Rutgers, never a fear-provoking aggregation, dropped one to Penn by four lengths the same day. M.I.T. is an untested, but usually dangerous, competitor...