Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guild's national campaign to get $100 a week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
...blue-green mold, Penicillium notatum, which excretes penicillin, has a laboratory rival. Last week a biochemical team led by Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical...
...Granz is bringing three men who from past performances should satisfy all but the most unreconstructed antiquarians. Green-eyed Buck Clayton has proved he can combine melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse who walks like a man, Dave Tough. This made over two beat artist has probably...
Archbishop John, whose mahogany-colored beard is as silky and flowing as Victor's is square cut and bristly, took the Christian view of his rival's plight. Said he: "Archbishop Victor is a good man, well known for his charity and his love of the people. All members of the Church regret the misfortune that has befallen him, and we shall pray for his early release...
...Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...