Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, 32, onetime carnival wrestler who became world heavyweight champion boxer in 1933, later turned to cinemacting; and Pina Cavazzi, 26, postal clerk; in Sequals, Italy...
Last week, still fecund at 87, this corporate oldster proudly brought forth an offspring: a new car, the Studebaker Champion, frankly designed to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth in the low-price field. Other makers have tried for ten years to crash this field without success, and Studebaker itself has had two previous cracks at it with the Erskine and the Rockne...
...last year's German Sieger or champion and as such is required to have passed certain training tests. This naturally leads him to be wary of strangers. While on the bench he is doing his duty of guarding and consequently is not friendly to spectators...
Watching the Roman scene with eyes of concern was many a non-Catholic libertarian and democrat the world over. For the first time since the 18th Century's Enlightenment, believers in individual liberty found themselves taking the same side as the Roman Catholic Church, the champion of the individual soul-and facing a common enemy. So, while the Cardinals elected a Pope, the whole world watched...
Last week a parcel of sporting characters, including No. i Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...