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...image comes from years as TV's best-known underdog. The American Broadcasting Co. was created in 1943 when the FCC forced the National Broadcasting Co. to give up one of its two radio networks (NBC kept the so- called Red Network; its Blue Network became ABC). Ten years later, ABC merged with United Paramount Theaters, whose chief executive, Leonard Goldenson, became president of the new company and its guiding spirit...
Harvard, whose non-Ivy schedule and longest road trip of the year comes to a close here tonight, is a decided underdog to Duke, the King of the ACC and the nation's sixthr-ranked team...
Despite the loss, the team remains optimistic. "We definitely went into this game as the underdog," said Joseph. "I don't think the loss will affect...
...last, Mondale, with the weird serenity of the underdog, cherished a mystical, or perhaps merely desperate, optimism. Transpose the last two digits, he suggested: 1984 is really 1948. Mondale is Harry Truman, with a handsome, vindictive grin, flourishing the headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune. Conjuring doubts to keep the pundits honest. The great hyperkinetic exercise had come to its final stage, like the jitterbugging burst at the end of a '30s dance marathon...
Mondale aides say their candidate has been buoyed by the exuberance of his crowds and curiously liberated by his underdog status. And he has certainly been showing more personal emotion...