Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Champion and the ablest player in the country. "Gino" is Virginia Van Wie, champion from 1932 through 1934. "Maureen" is square-jawed Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Miami who has been runner-up to the other two more often than anyone else. Last week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe...
...come word of the latest contribution of science to the art of good living. Oxygen is threatening the traditional supremacy of alcohol as general "pick-me-up." Drawn into the lungs in quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...
Incidentally, just before I left Japan one of the sumo wrestlers said he was retiring from the sumo ring to study boxing and become the world's champion. Keep your eyes open for this man, he is bigger than Primo Camera...
...difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose prodigious love for bananas is supposed to account for his strength, out-shotputted Champion Jack Torrance; when bespectacled Chuck Hornbostel won the 1,000-metre...
...replaced huge N. Y. U., whose team had lost three out of its last four games, as New York City's basketball favorite. A crowd of 13,000 gathered there to watch the Long Islanders play a team far more publicized than their earlier opponents: Rice Institute, co-champion of the strong Southwestern Conference, whose regulars are all over six feet tall. Day of the game, Coach Bee shamefacedly announced that all his men had lost their uniforms. Amused Rice players courteously offered to lend some of theirs. When the game started, L. I. U. smartly boxed Rice...