Word: contested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had managed to build the framework in which labor unions from 53 countries-including America's staid A.F.L., Britain's Socialist T.U.C. and (tentatively) the Continent's Catholic unions-could unite in their fight against Communism...
...catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries, the pictures on display were all related in one way or another to Christmas; they had been painted for a $28,000 contest sponsored by the U.S. manufacturer of "Hallmark" cards (TIME, July 4), and many of them would show up on Christmas-card counters eventually...
...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
Previously undefeated in collegiate competition, the varsity was hard pressed throughout the contest and Hugh Foster's three to two loss in the number one spot proved to crucial...
...last 30 seconds of the game, he sank a basket to put his teammates ahead by one point. Fouled on the shot, Brynteson proceeded to add another marker to the total with his successful foul shot. Another Brynteson foul goal put an end to the 41 to 38 contest...