Word: tossups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Younger Successors. To follow Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 54, is an overwhelming favorite. Insiders consider the Air Forces job a tossup between General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz (54) and his Texas-born lieutenant in the European theater, Lieut. General Ira Eaker (49), but an even younger...
Either John Teal or Al Aldrich will open at left end, and the fullback post is still a tossup between Charlie Cowen and "Swede" Anderson, as it has been all year. Wayne Johnson and Cleo O'Donnell will be counted on for most of the Crimson's yardage, and Captain Steve Mallett will lead a tested line against the Indian invasion...
...York Daily News pollsters showed the Empire State was evidently a tossup, with Willkie running far ahead of Landon, to shade Roosevelt early this week...
Richard L. Wetnberg will get a medal for taking extempore on "What efforts compatible with isolation should the United States take to maintain peace?", while the debaters came home empty-handed, since they lost the tossup with Bates deciding which of the tieing schools should keep the trophy...