Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thayer North heads the National League with two wins and one tie. Stoughton has a firm grip on first place in the American League, having won three with no losses or ties...
...recommended widow, and as she opens the door he faints at her feet. Widow Nancy, it turns out, is Rose's half-sister and living image; but Charley, still living in the past, decides it must be Rose playing a malicious game. In time, Nancy breaks the grip of his memory, and Charley learns that she, too, can be the rose of his heart...
After sinking an estimated $25 million into his newspaper ventures, Marshall Field III had been loosening his grip on the editorial direction of his surviving daily, the tabloid Chicago Sun-Times (circ. over 610,000 daily). Last fall, though he kept the title of publisher, Field gave 34-year-old Marshall Field Jr. a lift up the ladder; he gave him day-to-day command of the news room to be shared with 50-year-old Managing Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers (TIME, Nov. 14). This week, the elder Field made the transfer of power complete. He gave up his title...
...designed not to protect the nation against spies and saboteurs but to protect Peron against opposition. Peron already had the 1948 General Organization Law, giving him unlimited powers the moment he declares that a national emergency exists. With the new bill, his regime would hold an unbreakable legal grip on the lives of Argentina's 16 million citizens...
Said the committee: "Because of the tyrannical grip a small clique has upon the W-T&S unit . . . anyone who questions the leadership is called a traitor . . . The time has come for a reasonable and fair approach ... Scripps-Howard has money in the bank. Some of us no longer have." The committee suggested that the dispute over security, the chief issue, be settled by accepting management's latest offer (the same as in the present New York Times contract...