Word: champ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Tony Canzoneri, 51, tiny boxing champ who never stopped punching from the moment he entered the ring until he left it, by 13 had won 17 amateur fights, at 16 turned professional, at 19 won the world's featherweight championship, lost it seven months later but won the world's lightweight title in 1930 by knocking out his opponent in the first round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Born. To Ashley Cooper, 23, world amateur-tennis champ (1958) recently turned pro; and Helen Wood, 21, Miss Australia of 1957: their first child; in Brisbane, Australia. Name: Lisa Jane. Weight...
Mixed Methods. Even children were taught to cheat. The probing Congressmen summoned Child Actress Patty (The Miracle Worker) Duke, a Challenge champ. Her manager, John Ross, testified that answers were fed to her by Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...
...Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts on TV's Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than gangland's celebrated Mickey Cohen...
...Last May the N.B.A. deprived Champion Sugar Ray Robinson of his title for refusing to fight either Fullmer or Basilio, left the aging (39) Harlem flash the middleweight champ of only the two non-N.B.A. states: Massachusetts and New York...