Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important than the Crimson's victory, however, was St. Lawrence's 3-1 upset of powerful Clarkson last night. As Clarkson was supposed to be a sure bet to go to Colorado and the Larries were the chief rival of the varsity's for the other position, this news will come as quite a shock to Harvard hockey fans. The problem will now be thrown into the laps of the selection committee while the only thing the varsity can do is to look as good as possible against Yale...
...sturdy, bristle-haired Pierre Balmain, who is charming in several languages. Balmain numbers among his customers Actresses Vivien Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, many South American millionairesses. Some of his biggest customers are Italian designers, who reproduce his dresses for the Italian market. On Italian designers' claims to rival Paris, he is tart: "Their ambition is to design dinner and cocktail clothes, but their ability is to design sport clothes...
Though the Kids, who appear only in Sunday comic pages, have fallen behind such seven-days-a-week upstarts as Li'l Abner (820 daily and Sunday newspapers) and Blondie (1,200), their anarchistic appeal is still powerful enough to support their antics in two rival strips: The Katzenjammer Kids, which was Cartoonist Dirks's original strip, and The Captain and the Kids, the strip he began after losing The Kids in 1913. Combined, they appear in 400 U.S. newspapers with a total circulation of some 60 million, and translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages (with...
Callas had come and gone, leaving the field to her great rival, Renata Tebaldi. As Mimi in Boheme, Tebaldi had already caused an emotional demonstration by partisans who tied up Manhattan traffic around the Met long after midnight. Last week in a brand-new production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Met's first in 21 years, Tebaldi's performance was memorable...
...await the Yabook rally. At 7:15, a rented moving van stopped on Quincy Street and, flanked by two kilted swordsmen and a seven-piece band, "Yabook" strode to the steps of the Varsity Club. There, as the rally proceeded in darkness, Dupont agitators in the crowd led rival cheers and threw the evening's dessert--apples and oranges--at Yabook to curb the "crude activities" of their opponent...