Word: champ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never too late to learn something new about sport-even for champions. Take Mrs. Tudor Gardiner who, as Tenley Albright, was twice world figure-skating champ and 1956 Olympic Gold Medal winner. Now Tenley has two young daughters, Lilla, 6, and Elin, 2, and once a week she takes them to the Skating Club of Boston, where the tykes have already shown Mom a trick or two. "It took me a while to learn that skating included running on benches, jumping up and down on the ice and dashing in and out of telephone booths," admits Tenley...
Died. Charley Goldman, 81, rugged little (5 ft. 1 in.. 115 Ibs.) prizefight trainer who, in half a century, schooled hundreds of boxers, including Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers and Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket...
...spot reports were filed by TIME correspondents across the country, Nation staff members wound up the demanding, detailed coverage of the campaign by working around the clock. On the longest night of their year, they were assisted by colleagues from other sections, including Senior Editors Jesse Birnbaum, Champ Clark, Marshall Loeb and Peter Martin, and Associate Editors Leon Jaroff, Robert Jones and Ed Magnuson...
...deceased inductees are headed by All-American football players Edward Casey '10 and Charles Hubbard '24; Malcolm Whitman '99, standout on the first Davis Cup team and three-time national tennis champ; Edward Gourdin '21, former world record holder in the broad jump; Palmer Dixon '25, two-time national squash champ and Varsity Club President from 1963-1966; Robert Emmons '21, baseball and hockey star; tennis champs Bob Wrenn '95 and Richard Williams '16, runner John Watters '26; hockey goalie Jabish Holmes '21; and Charles Clark '20, another star of the 1920 Rose Bowlers...
...winner of more tournaments (27) than any sumo champ in history, Koki Naya, a half Russian, half Japanese who weighs in at 314 Ibs. and is known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), had a bad year in 1967. He injured his left elbow and knee and was out of action for eight months. By contrast, 1967 was a banner year for Jesse Kuhaulua, a 24-year-old from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Of Polynesian-Spanish ancestry, he stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs in at 315 Ibs. and wrestles under the pseudonym of Takamiyama ("High-View Mountain...