Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...
...rival NBC, captured such longtime NBC stars as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen. Last week monolithic NBC finally struck back: it proudly announced the signing of an eight-year radio & TV contract (at an estimated $3,000,000) with Peabody Award-winning Comic Groucho Marx, one of CBS' top-rated shows. Cracked Groucho: "It was a tough fight...
...theory was that a jealous rival for her husband's affections had spread false rumors about her. The House Judiciary Committee fumed when the Justice Department refused to tell its side of the story. At the committee's angry urging, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to let Ellen Knauff enter the country...
Last week, Comrade di Vittorio and his CGIL faced a rising rival, the CISL-Confederazione Italiana Sindacate Lavoratori (Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions). CISL (pronounced chisel) started growing two years ago as a Christian Democrat splinter of the Communist union, has grown steadily and courageously, chiseled deeply into Red trade union strength. Last month the Communists called a waterfront strike against U.S. arms shipments. CISL unionists, under police guard, broke it by unloading American weapons at Naples...
...Herald Tribune and 24 other newspapers, and most of them like him very much indeed. Professor Mark Van Doren has read Smith's columns to his Columbia University English classes. Humorist Frank Sullivan rates Smith "a humorist of purest ray serene." Smith's friendly rival on the New York Journal-American, Frank Graham, who travels south every year with Red to cover spring baseball training, calls him, "the country's best sports writer...