Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whetted Appetite. Instead of a feared competitor, television turned out to be both a nuisance and a help. At every press conference TV-men pushed in their bulky equipment. Some politicos balked at meeting the press before millions of TV-viewers, and reporters often squirmed in their unaccustomed role as actors. But many a reporter and press headquarters also found TV a big help in finding out where news was breaking, or in covering far distant points...
...gawky 17-year-old kid at the 1948 London Olympics, Mathias won the decathlon gold medal with a margin of 165 points over his nearest competitor. Now, a poised and handsome 21, a veteran fullback of Stanford's 1951 Rose Bowl team, and filled out to a rangy frame (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), Bob is better than ever. At the end of five events (the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shotput, high jump, and 400-meter run), Mathias was not only far in front of the field, but far ahead of his 1950 world record pace...
...they prepared to cover the Republican Convention next week, newsmen all agreed on one point. Their big competitor in Chicago will not be the other newsmen; it will be television and its gavel-to-gavel coverage. In a memo to his staff, Scripps-Howard's news executive Dick Thornburg sketched the plan of battle against TV: "Our job more than at any time in the past will be to provide interpretive material. Why did Joe Blow make that kind of a speech? What influence did it have? What votes did it change? Also, forward-looking stories telling the readers...
Free & Equal. Over the last year, Gene Howe showed signs of losing his zest for journalism. He sold his Atchison Globe to two old associates, told friends he was getting weary of fighting his competitor, the Amarillo Times, which had been backed by the oil-rich Whittenburg family. Last December the Whittenburgs bought 35% of Howe's enterprises, and the Times and Globe merged. Gene Howe talked of retiring, but went right on writing his column. He worried, however, about his health, although repeated checkups showed nothing was wrong with...
...known, established firm, has abandoned the policy of living easily on its past prestige. The College has thrown itself, for good or bad, into this fierce advertising competition. University Hall, rather than letting up on its efforts to "sell" the College, has intensified them, making Harvard an all-out competitor...