Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henderson Forsythe is an adequate Banquo, though a little colorless for a man who is supposed to be Macbeth's honorable rival. As Macduff, Roy Poole has a slight vocal problem; but he has a noble manner, and rises to great heights in the moving scene in which he is informed of the slaughter of his family. Duncan is a weak old king, but not so weak as Pat Malone makes him. Barry Macollum is a deeply affecting Physician. William Myers' Lennox needs to smooth out his jerkv delivery...
...eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared an R.A.F. rival. "I think the time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That it was. At the end, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Charles Maughan, 35, got the last bit of ground speed from the motorcycle-helicopter system, picked up precious minutes by flying a transonic Hawker Hunter...
...doctors. Yet last summer he stubbornly took the tiller of the 12-meter Columbia and, under tremendous pressure, skippered her at the start of light races in the final trials that led to her successful defense of the America's Cup with his old friend and onetime rival, Briggs Cunningham, at the helm...
...business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether he dickers with a rival distributor for a better deal...
...first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a successful career as a financier by buying the bankrupt Post (1933 daily circulation: 62,000), over the years strengthened editorial policy, bought (1954) from Colonel Robert R. McCormick the Post's biggest Washington rival and political antithesis, the Times-Herald, boosted the daily circulation of the combined papers...