Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends of the British racing fraternity, Cunningham is "Old Briggs -bless his heart." To the Germans, he is "der grÖsste Idealist" (the greatest idealist) in the sport. To the Italians, he is " un pericoloso rivale" (a dangerous competitor...
...will not be an easy task. Ever since the Times-Star tried to buy the Cincinnati Enquirer and lost out when the Enquirer's employees bought the paper instead (TIME, June 16, 1952), the Times-Star has been in a neck-and-neck battle with its evening competitor, the Scripps-Howard Post. Newsmen guessed that the battle might end in a merger of the two papers, leaving the afternoon field with only one daily. But on his first day at his new job, Publisher Ingalls made it clear that the Times-Star intends to fight the competition rather than...
...that . . . Despite Mr. Doom, children are born every day, and parents are happy about it and plan. They talk about Harvard, class of '75." John Fox fired back. Noting that he had been the subject of recent editorials in both the Daily Worker and "our dearly beloved, friendly competitor, the Boston Herald," he offered to have the circulation of the Post and Herald audited at his expense...
...free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether. The plan worked so well that eleven years after he started, McCraken's upstart Eagle bought its entrenched competitor, the 60-year-old Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, and moved from its own grubby offices into the Tribune's modern plant. Later he repeated the same trick with other papers he took over, pepped them up with wider wire-service coverage, broadened local-news coverage for such successful small papers...
...Love Lucy, the TV family comedy show has been gradually winning U.S. audiences away from other forms of TV comedy. My Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS), a happy-family newcomer, last week boasted a Trendex rating of 25-compared to only 21.5 for its top competitor, the gaudy Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The fact that Husband was able to equal, and then surpass, the rating of one of the best and oldest of the expensive variety shows may have played an important part in the decision to break up the team...