Word: babe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Adam Foster's contest with Princeton's "Babe" Pearson was the clutch match, since it was the last to finish. Behind 2 to 1, Foster "never played better squash," according to Coach Jack Barnaby, to capture the final two games...
...Babe Ruth, 53, after a checkup at a Manhattan hospital, packed his bags for Miami Beach, where he hoped to burn out a lingering cold...
Square-faced Brigadier General Wallace Graham wore his uniform-with four rows of service ribbons and gold-braided aiguillettes-when he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. He also wore the sheepish smile of a babe in the woods who had been found by the wrong search party...
Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias was chosen 1947-3 "woman athlete of the year," in the annual A.P. sportwriters' poll. It was the fourth time for the versatile Babe, the third time in a row as a golfer. She was also woman of the year in 1932 (when she broke the Olympic hurdling and javelin records...
...DiMaggio, baseball's most talented star, haggled with his bosses for $75,000 and signed on the dotted line for about $10,000 less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...