Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freeport, Ill., Carnation Imperial Inka Premier, a $5,000 prize bull, roared in anguish and gradually lost 400 pounds, while his owner pottered over him with two Army-type mine detectors, trying to find out which of the four stomachs (normal for bulls) contained a piece of metal the champ had swallowed...
...more than four years, Sugar Ray Robinson had been known as the uncrowned welterweight champion of the world, the man the champions were afraid to fight. Last week his big chance was at hand: Champ Marty Servo had retired with a bad nose. As No. 1 boxer-in-waiting, Sugar Ray had only to beat fellow Negro Tommy Bell to get the title. Sugar Ray's good friend Joe Louis dropped into his dressing room in Madison Square Garden with some advice: "You got to pace yourself, because you can get awful tired in 15 rounds." A few minutes...
...followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...
Hokum & Horseplay. To his celebrity friends, to budding sportswriters and the pathetic heavyweights he fed in the forlorn hope of some day owning a champ, Runyon was a hokum-laden, horseplaying, teetotaling, coffee-drinking (up to 40 cups a day, some said) legend. It was a legend clad neatly and gaudily in $200 suits, loud Charvet ties, studs and cuff links made out of gold pieces-and shoes at $50 a pair, broken in for him by the late Hype Igoe, a sports scribe who also wore size 5B. Like most rich Broadwayites, Runyon commuted from Manhattan to Miami...
...Yale Sat. 22 Bowdoin J. V. Class A, B, C, and Freshmen Ski Teams Dec. Sat. 21 Franconia Giant Slalom and Cross Country for Class A and B--two days. Sun. 29 College Week at Placid for Class A. Jan. Sun. 12 Mass. St. Class C Downhill Champ for Class and Freshmen. Feb. Sat. 1 West Point Carnival for Class A--two days. Sun. 2 Gibson Giant Open Slalom for Class B and Freshmen. Sat. 8 U.S.E.A.S.A. Downhill and Slalom at N. Conway for all teams. Sun. 9 Berlin Open Jump and Worcester Cross Country and Jump for all teams...