Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brisk, brusque Bob Taft discovered that the best of time schedules might be and often were upset by unpredictable colleagues. The joke that there were 50 other G.O.P. candidates for President in the Senate was not a joke but a fact which made bossing the Senate just about impossible. Freshmen Senators like New York's Irving Ives insisted upon being heard. The Republican majority was so slim that a handful of mavericks could upset schedules and applecarts...
...weekend's athletic clean sweep included even the hitherto unfortunate Varsity tennis team, which burned up the Business School courts with five singles and one double win to upset Dartmouth...
...news in the furlong free-for-all for a field of 150 was the upset of CRIMSON-backed Mary Ross, also Wellesley '47. Reported a sure winner at post time, the petite but spirited blend speedster was last seen in the stretch just short of the treacherous Chapel turn, running easily and widening a big lead. Rumors of foul play were quickly squelched by the Wellesley publicity offices, but the Cambridge daily had its best men conducting a Waban-wide search last night for suspicious circumstances in the shadows of Tower Court...
Brown's team whipped through all three opponents in the matches at the Winchester Country Club, and thereby upset pre-game predictions that the Crusaders would be the only squad for the Crimson to worry about. Holy Cross's lone win was a 6 to 3 tally over the Techmen, who could not engineer a single victory in the tourney...
...executive eyebrows, the hypersensitive seismographs of the broadcasting industry, were twitching excitedly. Cinemactor Ronald Colman's new transcribed show, Favorite Story, was having its premiere over Chicago's WMAQ. To many a radioman it sounded like an early, diffident mumble of an earthquake that might upset the whole map of U.S. commercial radio...