Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolls second. If, improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders his egg. If the point of A's egg and the butt...
...TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden ax. Flame-haired Songstress Marion Marlowe drew a fast $36,000 bid from Ed (Toast of the Town) Sullivan, also of CBS, who is always eager to snap up his rival's discarded aces; The Mariners, a Negro-white quartet (their last song for Godfrey: I Didn't Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke, a longtime Godfrey fixture...
...oldest of the Reed girls and a freestyle specialist before she swam for Tinkham, set a sure world record in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.4). With the whole team pitching in, the Walter Reed Swim piled up 95 points for their third championship in a row. Marveled a rival coach: "A crazy bunch of churning machines...
...Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...
...Medill died in 1899, he left a $130 million estate, and the editorship of the Trib fell to Robert Patterson, Medill's son-in-law and uncle of Robert McCormick. When Patterson died suddenly, a group of stockholders had about decided to sell the Trib to a publishing rival when young Robert McCormick stepped in. He persuaded them to keep the Tribune in the family. From 1914 on, he and his cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, took complete charge of the Trib...