Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word. Crowed a Mail editorial over its icy ace: "He is among the great reporters of the world." The Express could not stand this, last week struck back with a new contest. YOUR TRIP TO THE SOUTH POLE, ran a Page One headline (then a subhead FOR OF COURSE EVERYBODY'S DOING IT). Said the story: "The winner wouldn't be alone when he got there. These days politicians-even entertainers!-are flying in 'on the milk run' almost every day. WHY DON'T YOU GO TOO!" Next day the Express announced the details...
...protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber had the last word. When Hillary reached the Pole, the Mail's banner line bragged: LUNCH WITH HILLARY, and the byline...
Readers of West Virginia's Clarksburg evening Telegram and its sister morning paper, the Exponent (combined circ. 37,000), gawked last week at a new contest. On the front page appeared a "Secret Witness" form urging readers to fill in the blanks. It read: "I think the following person or persons should be suspected of the murder [of Milton J. Cohen, 59-year-old co-owner of the city's most fashionable women's shop] : Name __________. Address ___________, Or full description _________. For following reasons _________________." The form made clear that "in case of duplicate information, the letter bearing...
...contest was no stunt. It was proposed to the papers by the state police, stymied in their hunt for a masked man who shot Cohen at the door of his home during an attempted holdup. The prize money was posted by the authorities. Entrants were assured of anonymity and told to mark their forms with an identifying symbol so they could claim the prize if they...
...fans, this sort of game serves no useful purpose. This Saturday, the varsity has to meet a good Princeton team which it must beat if it is to have any kind of a successful team. Tonight's game could hardly be called a good tuneup for this important contest...