Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Secret, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. swaps his sword for a stethoscope and his cape for a trenchcoat, but the picture lacks none of the swashbuckling verve of his earlier efforts. Without benefit of a princess, a stolen treasure, or a single duel, the old master manages to find in the Twentieth Century all the components of absorbing high adventure...
...mailed out to all those who have enclosed an extra dime. The rest pick them up at the Y.A.A. on the Monday prior to the game or thereafter. Hence ticket purchasing is no fight at Yale, and the Eli gets hot under the collar only during his Saturday duel...
Resplendent in black and orange beanies, Princeton's freshman class traditionally marches off for an annual duel of rope with the sophomores. These tugs-of-war are usually hot, noisy jumbles with a good deal of strain on either side; unless the rope breaks, one group is clearly victorious. Between Harvard and Princeton there are now similar stresses. Academically, Princeton has attained many of the educational goals the new administration here is pulling toward. Socially, Harvard represents to Princeton students undergraduate life as it should be. These strains between the schools constitute a quiet tugging on ideas and customs...
...Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...