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...year he has made on the Times, for Kieran makes a reputed $500 a week from Information, Please. He has also earned fame out of his Information, Please broadcasts, but the aloof Times has always looked down its nose at such programs and considered it an upstart in the field of information...
...game match with Crimmins, Day managed to keep his crown, 399.49 points to 398.28. But in the round, robin that followed, he and Crimmins both bowed to a comparative upstart, 25-year-old, 230-lb. Connie Schwoegler of Madison, Wis. Rolling a very slow ball with a slight hook, Schwoegler averaged 217 for 72 games. His score of 368.37 was 36 points better than Runner-up Frank Benkovic's, 39 better than Challenger Crimmins', 49 better than Champion...
...turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...
...appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...Deal, flashy clothes; hates any West Virginia politico who crosses him. To Matt Neely, in & out of public office since 1908, defeat was bad enough; worse was the fact that it was administered by a handsome, young (47 years old) lawyer making his first political campaign, a Republican upstart with liberal leanings and a storybook name: Chapman Revercomb...