Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blodnick replaced the slumping Harry Sacks in the starting lineup for the Columbia game, but nobody was much help against the Lions. Once again the rival coach sprung a zone defense to shackle the Crimson attack. But in this contest there was no third period recovery...
...Princeton match Chandler fell 12 to 4 to his two-year rival Don Rums-field. Heavyweight Pete Morrison, who two days later won a forfeit match from Penn wrestler Hay Walker, lost a close 6 to 2 decision to undefeated Tiger heavy-weight Jim MacAleer. In all, the Princetonians took five decisions and one pin from the varsity...
After pointing this out, Hearst's Daily Mirror, the News's arch rival (whose circulation has slipped as much), needled the News some more, saying: "They also said they originate and others only imitate . . . Heck, we remember last summer when the Mirror started the great 'Lucky Buck' game that set the city and the nation on its ear . . . Weeks went by. Our friends ignored it. Then we heard [the News was] holding meetings . . . All those brains! All that money! What were they going to come up with? Then came B-day. Our friends brought forth something...
...change in the Air Force was the sum of all of these and a new character, too. For one thing, the great new speeds, altitudes and precisions of jet flying had given the Air Force a stamp of its own - a skill to rival the technical proficiency of the Navy. For another, the new Air Force was a rich mixture of two generations of flying men: combat-tested elders teamed with youngsters born under the sign of Mach...
...hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will be the next envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon was "at long last . . . expecting" (TIME...