Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rocky Graziano, ex-middleweight champ and boxing's perennial bad boy, had run out on his contract. The promoter, who had spent $9,000 in advertising the fight, was annoyed, and said so. Rocky's manager went hunting for his missing boy. When he found him in Brooklyn, he begged him to go back to California and fight. But Rocky said...
Since the metropolitan league is at a par above intercollegiate play, the varsity should probably be able to top McGill, today, for the Canadians, while listing several strong players, have no one who can replace Pete Lambrey, 1946 and 1947 intercollegiate racquets champ who graduated this spring...
Freddie Mills is a British boxer, one of the best. A light heavyweight, he had just kayoed Champ Johnny Ralph to win South Africa's heavyweight crown...
Most important game--for the wavering spectator--is the top-of-the-heap contest between Kirkland, the Harvard champ, and Berkeley, Yale's top College. Both squads in this blue-chip game will be using the single wing formation...
...piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works, have won Poulenc his share of fame. This week, a Carnegie Hall audience would hear him, too, as soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in his melodic Concert Champêtre for piano...