Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Bright Eyes Shirley Temple has grown full of honors. Her position as box-office champion last year was determined by Motion Picture Herald's poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each...
...gathered last fortnight as improbable a collection of international oddities as Hollywood ever cinematically juxtaposed in a European hotel or an ocean liner. Their names were Soussa, Ankrom, Tiedtke, Lee, Deardorff, Lagache, Robyns and Zaman. They were, respectively, an Egyptian painter, Detroit barber, German hotel clerk, U. S. swimming champion, St. Louis secretary, Parisian stockbroker, Amsterdam diamond merchant and one-eyed Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three-cushion championship, being...
...became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...
...become a champion is, for an ambitious fisticuffer, by no means the only problem of his profession. In the case of Negro Joe Louis of Detroit, generally considered sure to win the heavyweight title when and if he fights James J. Braddock, the problem of what to do with it afterward is already even more puzzling. To canny Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has exclusive rights to Fisticuffer Louis' services, an inviting solution of this question was presented last week: a grand tour of Europe. For Fisticuffer Louis such an expedition might have notable advantages. If he beats Max Schmeling...
...visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained to reporters a few more of his immediate projects: a European tour for one-time Champion Max Baer; a European heavyweight elimination tournament conducted under the auspices of the Paris Soir; a series of indoor bullfights at his Palais des Sports, with matadors from Madrid. From New York Promoter Dickson whizzed off to Canada in search of recruits for the hockey teams he has popularized...