Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...
There are no Eastern Intercollegiate titles riding on the outcome of the contest--Yale took care of that when it eliminated the Crimson from title contention Monday down at New Haven. Instead there will merely be half a century of Class Day baseball tradition to egg the players on, and the largest and most partisan crowed of the year installed in the venerable stands...
Coach Stuffy McInnis' pitching choice for the contest will be lefthander Barry Turner, who last pitched Saturday against Tufts, and ultimately was the winning pitcher. The erratic Turner will be given bullpen support by fireballer Ralph Hymans and Crimson mound ace Ira Godin...
Armie Essayan will be the starting catcher, filling in for first string receiver Cliff Crosby who was injured in the New Haven contest. Essayan is not the defensive bulwark that was Crosby and Eli base runners three times stole second base on him. Nevertheless, he atoned for this weakness at New Haven by leading the team in hitting with three for four...
...Else, a New York psychiatrist whose attractions were heightened by a familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations that was almost as inclusive as his own. In spite of verbal protestations of physical and emotional fireworks on both sides, their affair never climbed above the level of a quiz contest...