Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory defeat, strangely enough, was annoying instead of pleasing to Ted Jolliffe. His party had just been shellacked in the February by-election in Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
...Rival press associations, which neither confirmed nor tried to scotch the Lochner stories, nervously waited to see whether the A.P.'s German ace was on his way to another Pulitzer Prize, or whether his "inside information" would eventually assay as low as similar lurid accounts from the anonymous "Swedish travelers in Germany" who always know the Wilhelmstrasse "inside...
...most important news" first. "It would be unfortunate," CBS explained primly, "if good taste . . . should be endangered in favor of any rigid rule. . . ." But CBS favored one rigid rule: no more plugs on CBS for any show a CBS sponsor may be paying for on a rival network...
VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN HIND-Edmund Gilllgan-Scribner ($2.50). Two rival captains on the same ship vie for fish and the girl they love amid well depicted seascapes. Better than average adventure-romance...
...horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious rival...