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Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...Century-Fox Film Corp., Spyros Panajotis Skouras, 51. Three months ago muscular Tycoon Skouras flew to England to see Tycoon Rank. With him Spyros Skouras carried the worries of Hollywood about Cinemagnate Rank. Was Mr. Rank willing to come to terms, or was he getting ready for a knockdown, drag-out fight for a chunk of Hollywood's world monopoly? Last week persuasive Mr. Skouras clippered back to Manhattan. In his pocket was the deal with Rank...
...other United Nations do, with what Congress decides. Pan Am's diplomatic Trippe is an old expert with Congress. But never has Juan Trippe been confronted by such a solid phalanx of airlines, such a potent battler as the U.S. Army. Pan Am is in for the knockdown, drag-out battle of its tumultuous career...
...major independent finance company. Last year Transamerica added three small war babies (a foundry, two aircraft-parts manufacturers) and a tobacco company (Axton-Fisher, Fleetwood cigarets) to its portfolio. But last week embattled old A. P. was back on his old stamping grounds, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out fight to gain control of another bank...
Early this month U.S. warships in the Solomons were ordered to prepare for a knockdown, drag-out fight...