Word: rival
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U.C.L.A.'s northern rival, Berkeley, got famous that way, starting the vast go-West movement that now has thoroughbreds galloping out of famed stables all over the East. But not all the traffic goes West. Last week Brown triumphantly made off with Berkeley's Historian Carl Bridenbaugh. president of the American Historical Association. Yale exults in such recent California catches as Berkeley's Microbiologist Edward Adelberg and Stanford's husband-and-wife Historians (China) Arthur and Mary Wright (he got a new Yale chair; she became the first woman tenure-holder on Yale's liberal...
Thus, the rival medium of TV plastered all over town the biggest Los Angeles newspaper story in more than a decade. By week's end, the whispers that had been circulating for months had turned into fact. Of the city's four newspapers, two had died: Hearst's morning Examiner (circ. 381,037) and Norman Chandler's afternoon Mirror (circ. 301,882). Chandler's big and powerful Times (548,702) was left with a valuable morning monopoly, and Hearst's flamboyant Herald-Express (393,215) had the afternoon field all to itself...
...Opera-Set World. It has been said that if the missing "bundle of many pages" that formed Piranesi's autobiography ever came to light, it would rival Cellini's great book in raciness. But only the bare facts of his life are known. The son of a stonemason, he was born in a small village not far from Venice. His uncle was a successful engineer and architect, and Piranesi started out to be an architect too. He read Palladio, studied the majestic stage designs that were the triumph of the Venetian theater. Even so, Venice seemed a stifling...
...multiplying the outstanding shares in order to obtain new capital. Now, with sales of $600 million a year, Montecatini slugs it out internationally with the likes of Du Pont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, and in the Italian market has a reputation for slashing prices until a rival is forced to give up the fight...
Cost of Living. One of the first paragraphers on record was a Louisville, Ky., editor named George D. Prentice. In the mid-19th century Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...