Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Installed on board were tracks, jumping pits, a boxing ring, etc. Track Coach Lawson Robertson promptly advised his charges not to run on deck. First serious indisposition of the trip: appendicitis for Harold Smallwood, 400-metre champion...
Hollywood reporters, picture services, both United Press and Associated Press snapped at the story. On front pages all over the U. S., Cinemactress Leeds was billed as "Hollywood's Kiss Champion...
...commonest forms of preparation for a career as a champion athlete is a sickly childhood. Diver Jump's debility reached the stage where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because...
...long, so successfully has Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood raced his Miss America that many people think he has done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last...
...Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion, who was last week appointed chairman of a committee to arrange an international meet at Elmira next year with $10,000 in prizes...