Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Likely To Win Saturday...
Coach Andy Coakley's Lions have won but one of their three League games. First of all, they granted the Crimson a welcome 11 to 3 win in New York last month in the League curtain-raiser for the Stahlmen, and then they went on to split a twin bill with Dartmouth. Pitching has been the chief dilemma for the Morningsiders, because most of their flingers are sadly lacking in experience...
...with his fellow Michigander and No. 2 rival for the nomination, Senator Vandenberg. Last week he put in some long hours with Joe Martin, Minority Leader of the House. Joe Martin agrees with Minority Leader McNary of the Senate that unless the Republicans feel in 1940 that they can win with anybody, Tom Dewey is the glamor boy they will pick. Vandenberg, Dewey and Taft all appeared beaming at a dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (see cut). Dewey and Taft both spoke (off the record) and of the two, suave Tom Dewey went over best...
...award, Broadway knew the choice lay between Robert E. Sherwood's eloquent Abe Lincoln in Illinois (the favorite), Lillian Hellman's biting The Little Foxes. So violent was the partisanship on both sides that neither play could muster the twelve out of 15 votes necessary to win. After ten fruitless, disputatious ballots,* a weary Critics' Circle decided to make no award. Final score: The Little Foxes, 6 votes; Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 5; Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon, 2; William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands...
When 25 of the nation's top-notch contract bridge teams sat down in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel last week to fight for the most prized team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against...