Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final round by virtue of a minor upset of Lane McGovern in a hectic three-set struggle, 4-6, 11-9, 6-3. At one time in the long second set McGovern was at match point, but Brady fought off the threat and subdued his higher-seeded rival...
...radio show? Two Minneapolis college stations hopped to it, gave a daily, five-to-six-hour broadcast of games, stories, circus music and the like; then all six Minneapolis commercial stations joined in. As each came to an end of its show, it told moppets to turn to a rival station for more Fun at Home...
...North Atlantic route of Trans World Airline from Bombay to Shanghai. There T.W.A. will team up with Northwest to offer a joint one-ticket globe-girdling trip that is 2,000 miles shorter and more complete than Pan Am's. (Hustling to get the jump on their new rival, Northwest and T.W.A. announced that they plan to inaugurate the service within three months...
...every time a rival pitcher thought he had at last found Williams' batting weakness, he was quickly disillusioned. Williams just didn't have oae. He moved up to Minneapolis, went hitless for three games, then stomped into the dressing room, ripped up all the towels and uniforms he could find...
...talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year) "that notorious leftist...