Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiger's regular trio, playing its last intercollegiate contest of the season, was only used in the first and last chukkers, yet it scored 14 goals...
When Greeting Card King Joyce Clyde Hall of Kansas City decided to let French painters in on his $30,000 Christmas card contest last fall, he little knew what he was stirring up. The French, he announced, would get half the prizes; their pictures would be judged by an all-French jury and they would have a crack at the $3,500 prix international on an even-Stephen basis with U.S. artists. Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards) would become sole proprietor of the winning entries (with royalties to the artists). What Hall failed to take into account was the French...
Nonetheless, the popularity of the Hallmark contest had spread like wildfire. Last week Philippe Huisman, director of exhibitions for Paris' Wildenstein galleries and Hallmark's French representative, announced with pride that over 5,000 entries had been received...
...youngest, knows his orchestra and its instruments pretty well. He started out as a hot-lips trumpeter, was persuaded at 15 to switch to cello by the high-school orchestra instructor back in Sioux City, Iowa. Six months later, he had won a statewide cello contest. After scholarships at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra...
...Briggs and Gordon Weir are entered in the diving contest, but the relay team may have either Tom Woods or Joe Steinhart, either Chuck Bocizer or Larry Ward, and either Bob MacVicar or Joe Fox. Captain Jerry Goodman and 1500-meter champion Ted Norris will compete in the quarter-mile grind...