Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to inspire Bevan to new onslaughts. He charged that the party has become dominated by the huge trade unions. Labor's answer to the Tories, he shouted, should be not change but a return to the old hellfire Socialism and nationalization of almost everything. "You are not Socialists!" he thundered...
Similarly, a network tries desperately to undermine its rival's strong shows. Ed Sullivan's show, since it begins at 8 o'clock, has long been the key to Sunday evening dominance. In succession, NBC has challenged it with the Philco TV Playhouse, the Lambs Club Show and the Comedy Hour. NBC's Weaver is as baffled as everyone else by the riddle of Sullivan's popularity. Currently, he subscribes to the theory that Ed has never lost his appeal because he didn't have any to start with. Says Weaver: "He doesn...
...decision whether to watch Robert Montgomery Presents, or Studio One, I Love Lucy or Medic, Disneyland or Arthur Godfrey, George Gobel or Gunsmoke. Shrewd Pat Weaver made these decisions even more difficult by spotting his 90-minute Spectaculars in places calculated to do the most audience harm to rival CBS. This year, NBC is back with 47 more Spectaculars, and CBS is replying in kind. Some TV families, rent with quarrels about which show to turn to, have ended in the divorce court...
Dartmouth, the varsity's rival this week, suffered a 21-13 set-back from Lafayette, while Brown went down to its third defeat, losing 14-12 to Rutgers. At the same time, Colgate upset previously undefeated Princeton...
...there a solution to the South African dilemma? Gunther saw none, but he found hope elsewhere on the troubled continent-notably in British West Africa, where the hustling rival colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access...