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Nobody in college squash can beat Charlie Ufford. An upstart from Trinity named Dick Stewart thought he could yesterday, and he came closer than anyone has this year. But Ufford won, and everybody else on the team won to make a final score of Harvard 9, Trinity...
Mother Advocate pondered the past, thinking back to the days when the Crime was an upstart literary magazine rival, and stated, "If the child is father to the man, the two are often strangely dissimilar...
...private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
...rule" of the state. At street-corner meetings he came out for FEPC, federal power and the Administration's foreign policy; he denounced Bible as a member of McCarran's machine. Bible ran as a "states' rights Democrat" and native son, called Mechling a "brash young upstart." Irked by Tom's hard-hitting campaign, Pat McCarran himself went on the air, issued an eight-page statement urging Bible's election...
...program," broadcast by Manhattan's WMCA, committed an unpardonable sin last year. He turned his microphone over to New York Daily News Columnist Ed Sullivan for an hourlong, scathing attack on Winchell (TIME, Jan. 7). Those who knew Winchell waited to see how soon he would turn on upstart Disk Jockey Gray...