Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skipper Sopwith won the first two races before losing the series to Skipper Vanderbilt's Rainbow. The historic one-sidedness of this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...
...week Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson put her small and pretty feet under a Hearst desk as editor & publisher of the Washington Herald. Much-traveled Mrs. Patterson had always wanted to run a Washington paper. Much-propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made the butt of "Cissy...
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of big University of Chicago last week became a member of the Board of Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course...
...made less money last year than ten years ago, the exceptions being the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express and the Detroit Times. Four made less money last year than five years ago in the deep of Depression, and six showed circulation losses since 1932. Most conspicuous loser was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has shown operating losses every year since 1929. Definitely on the down grade is the Chicago Evening American, which used to be one of the big Hearst moneymakers. However, 1936 was the best year in history for the American Weekly, in both circulation...
Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...