Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
...time. But 135-lb. little Ben Hogan, a man with steel in his wrists and ice in his veins, steadied down to win going away, 6 and 4. The $3,500 prize made Ben's season earnings $33,377, and put him $12,000 ahead of his nearest rival-Nelson...
Test pilots, who put experimental planes through their paces, face a potent rival. Airplanes are being tested by remote control with no pilot on board...
Houdini claims to have won every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...
Flight of Wordages. Houdini generally stays out of trouble by not criticizing Crown officials (one rival's song went: "I must be very frank and say, I was glad when Sir Hollis went away"). His Stone Cold Dead describes a murder in Port-of-Spain's Grass Market in 1939. He recorded it himself in 1939 (as He Had It Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it this spring. Other Houdini songs have had such innocuous themes as I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones and Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...