Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's hour of need for leadership, the Loyal Opposition does not want to take power. For one thing, most Tory leaders do not believe that the country would support them. If they did come to power, they would have to champion more of the same harsh, unpopular measures (including conscription) which have plagued Labor. A Tory Government would not be able to get as much cooperation from British workers as the Labor regime. Said one Conservative M.P.: "If we had won the 1945 election, we would now probably be in the middle of our second general strike...
...Paris last week, with the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on the Champs Elyseés, her little glass of jus de fruits was still untouched in front of her and Pauline seemed undecided what...
Facts & Figures. She had been found guilty, not of succumbing to the temptations of professional tennis, but merely of inquiring about them. A month ago in Manhattan, Pauline Betz had asked friends how well a pro tour with ex-Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke would draw. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, wrote a brazenly open letter to 1,200 tennis clubs here & abroad, suggesting that Pauline and Sarah might be willing to play on their courts for a small fee-say, $350 on weekdays and $500 on weekends. In natural bewilderment-for even a tennis amateur is not allowed...
...competition will be outstanding, in contrast to the traditionally "soft" opening meet material. For example, Bob Bennett, Brown's national intercollegiate 16-pound hammer champion, Jack Fisher, Sam Felton, and Rhode Island's Miller (1-2-3-4 in the indoor IC4A 35-pound weight throw last month) will compete in what should be the country's best hammer show until the IC4A's later this spring...
Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...