Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were dwarfed by the exiles represented: Abstractionist Paul Klee, Satirist George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, who became a champion bicycle racer before he became one of the leading German cubists. For the London show, Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka sent a wry Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist. A second canvas arrived in four pieces, hacked by Vienna police when Nazis seized Austria. Symbolizing the end of a chapter...
Except for England's No. 1 Dorothy Round Little, whose recent marriage prevented her from defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded...
Last week, defending Champion Donald Budge having annihilated all other opposition without losing a single set, ambled nonchalantly onto the famed centre court, in the presence of Queen Mary and 18,000 Britons, to meet England's Henry W. ("Bunny") Austin, seeded No. 2. In just 66 minutes-6-1, 6-0, 6-3- Champion Budge disposed of Bunny Austin who was playing excellent tennis even though he had become a father during the tournament. With this victory Donald Budge became the only player ever to hold the Big Four championships of ten-nis (U. S., Australian, French, English...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, basking in his prize-ring fame, has given his race big ideas. When the idol of the Negroes, who has grossed well over a million dollars in the past three years, took up riding-in-the-park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis...
Married. John George ("Johnny") Goodman. 28, U. S. amateur golf champion, onetime (1933) U. S. Open champion; and Josephine Kersigo, 27, his sweetheart from childhood who devoutly makes novenae before his major contests (TIME. June 6); in Omaha...