Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting last night the Committee also decided to hold a series of tournaments to determine the Freshman champion in billiards, ping-pong, bridge, and chess. Entry lists for these tournaments are posted at the Union, and entries may be made until Monday night...
...Champion Field in Jump...
...high jump Bob Hall will probably be outjumped by the time the field has gone far beyond the six-foot mark. He will have to meet such acknowledged champions as Al Threadgill, Spitz, and Johnson, all of whom are good for a six-six jump nearly any evening. A fourth classy jumper is Osborne, who was a champion in years gone by and who can still get quite a way from the ground...
...originally made for use in countertops and tabletops, graduated into wainscotting for hallways and bathrooms, last year was used in store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled, powdered her nose, survived. Between the singer and the Sergeant stood a sheet of Pittsburgh's bullet-proof...
...this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting to hear and judge the symphony anew, especially after having received...