Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World, a speedy tabloid novel. The mob is beset by two enemies: a big-city gang trying to muscle in, and a dull but startlingly honest police commissioner who is trying to clean up the town. In a flash-bang climax, the judge is killed by the rival mobsters, Arky avenges the murder in a downtown hotel, is caught by the cops, slips away, is caught again. In the end, facing the chair, he feels a sudden surge of relief, which may even be the first dim proddings of moral conscience...
...ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
Italy's sculpture is in the midst of a postFascist renaissance. Milan boasts two sculptors good enough to rival any now living: Giacomo Manzú (TIME, Sept. 25) and Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). Rome has 37-year-old Pericle Fazzini, who is every bit as able. Last week Rome honored its own with a big Fazzini exhibition in the Barberini Palace...
Widening Loop. The news was the first shot in a revolution for small U.S. newspapers. A.P. has plans to extend its seven-paper system to the majority of afternoon dailies in North and South Carolina and into Virginia and Tennessee. The rival United Press has run successful tests on a circuit from Atlanta, which will feed nine North Carolina papers beginning this week. Another 25-paper U.P. network will open in Oklahoma next July. And Hearst's International News Service is rigging lines for an 18-paper loop in Ohio, to be ready by early summer...
Conversely, a company "weak in earnings, or young, or with inadequate capital . . . is at a double disadvantage as against its entrenched rival with tax-created cheap dollars at its disposal . . . The big will grow bigger and the small and weak will merge with them...