Word: champion
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...radicals (TIME, July 9) and now dominate Adolf Hitler. Best opinion among informed U. S. correspondents in Berlin was summed up last week as follows: "Herr Thyssen has lost much of the influence he enjoyed during the Party's fight for supremacy, when he was National Socialism's greatest champion among Big Business. Neither Thyssen nor Krupp von Bohlen is able to force his own ideas upon the Party, though their combined influence is still strong in Government circles...
Most recent addition to the little band of champion swimmers, whose sunburned legs, smooth heads and wide enthusiastic smiles make them the most attractive athletes in the country, Olive McKean is 18, a product of Seattle's municipal competitions. Last spring she graduated from high school, plans to continue amateur competition at least until the 1936 Olympic Games. Over her brown, bobbed hair she wears only one tight cap, insists that it must have no chinstrap. Built like Helene Madison (5 ft. 10 in., 145 lb.) she swims the same way, with an extraordinary glide between long and languid-looking...
...kind of golf that club champions play in the locker-room after the fifth highball. Olin Dutra, U. S. Open champion, could not qualify. Ky Laffoon (no kin to Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky), young Oklahoman who has been a golf professional since he was 15, beat Horton Smith 12 up in 26 holes. Herman Barren, the only famed Jewish golf professional in the U. S., had Gene Sarazen, defending champion, 2 down at the 28th hole. Sarazen got birdies on the next two holes to square the match, then got a birdie 3 at the 33rd. sank...
...newshawk for the Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They...
Born, To Edwin H. Vare, Jr., 38, nephew of onetime Philadelphia Republican Boss William Scott Vare, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. 31, five-time U. S. women's golf champion: a son; their second child; in Philadelphia...