Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the convention had adopted George Drew's platform, there was nothing left for it to do but adopt George Drew. On the first ballot Drew got 827 votes, to 311 for Diefenbaker, and 104 for earnest M.P. Donald Fleming, a rival from Drew's own Ontario bailiwick...
Hustling Heath. Billy Southworth's Braves didn't seem quite the pennant type, either. Said one rival National League manager: "They wait around until you boot a ball or make a wild throw, and then you're cooked. Not an exciting team to watch . . . looks deadpan. But it hustles." Southworth had kept them hustling, even after they had cinched the pennant, so as not to lose their fighting edge. Last week, hustling in a game with Brooklyn that didn't matter, hard-hitting Outfielder Jeff Heath broke his ankle sliding into home plate, and was lost...
...week Street & Smith got ready to gobble its eleven-year-old Pic.* Once a cheap pictorial stuffed with cheesecake, Pic had been restyled in 1945 as a serious magazine for young men. It was not making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time to Street & Smith's booming quarterly, Mademoiselle's Living...
Also scheduled for the 8 p.m. gathering in Emerson D is Jay E. Janson '50, who will ask volunteers to stump for Representative Christian Hertor '15. The rival Committee for Wallace has already announced it will actively campaign against Hertor...
Either ... Or. The real difference between Stepinac and its rival public high schools, and the real reason Westchester boys commute to it (whether the impetus comes from themselves, their families or their parish priests), is religion. Because of the separation of church & state in the U.S., no pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year...