Word: champ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squash--Nat. Team Champ. at Buffalo...
TIME cover stories on Speakers, such as this week's on John McCormack, hold a natural fascination for the man who as editor of THE NATION section is responsible for the story. He is Champ Clark, 38, grandson of the Champ Clark who was Speaker of the House from 1911-19, for whom he was named. Our Champ's father, Bennett Champ Clark, was a U.S. Senator from Missouri for twelve years...
...Champ Clark, a Missouri lawyer, was the Democratic floor leader in the insurrection against Uncle Joe Cannon. When he became Speaker, he was hamstrung by his own handiwork, and his fellow Democrats were reluctant to restore the powers that Clark had helped take from Cannon. He went a long way, however, toward restoring the speakership to its former prestige, and was noted for his rapid rulings. He never liked to explain his decisions, he said, because, like a country judge he had known back in Missouri, he might make the right ruling but give the wrong explanation...
...questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports 6 ft. 4 in. of lip adornment ;* the fecund female was the wife of Russia's Fedor Vassilet, who bore him 69 children-16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, four sets of quads...
After losing the first three out of four matches, the Crimson turned the trick with four late decisions and a pin. Fred Pereira, last year's Eastern freshman champ and Harvard's 167-pound entry, registered the only pin of the afternoon when he triumphed over Steve Dubner of F. and M. at 4:05 of the second period...