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Tactful Discrimination The bitter, no-quarter rivalry between the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart became legend among correspondents early in the Korean war. In their efforts to outdo each other, Bigart and Maggie Higgins also turned in some of the war's best reporting. Both were named 1950 Pulitzer Prizewinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tactful Discrimination | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...cast of The Brave Bulls. He gets good support from Stack and Actresses Page and Katy Jurado, who seem more convincing as Mexican women than Miroslava. Directed by onetime matador Budd Boetticher and edited (without screen credit) by Producer Wayne's good friend, John Ford, the bullfighting sequences outdo Rossen's in stylized grace and violent excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Brave Bullfighters | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...vaulter George Appel has cleared 14 feet recently. Teammate Neil King is in a class with Harvard's Bob Mello, but Mello has not fared too well in recent competition. Dave Cairns will have to outdo himself to top Yale's Frank Efinger in the mile and Elis Ed Mearns and George Dole figure to lead Dave Gregory in the two-mile. The Blue two-mile relayers also should not have to strain themselves...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Seen Underdog at Yale | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

Toward the end of World War II, a Kremlin visitor warned Stalin that the German Communist Party might-someday-outnumber and outdo the Russian party. Stalin snorted: "Communism on a German is like a saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Just an Old Cow Hand ... | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

This year, both sections are trying to outdo the other with gala displays. Last week, the Cambridge Light Company dug up the sidewalk in front of the Coop to put in permanent installations for electric displays, and yesterday, workmen finished stringing garlands and colored lights between every pole from Harvard to Quincy and Brattle Squares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squares Open Display Battle | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

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