Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simultaneous meet at the home pool, Freshman swimmers will toe the mark today against Andover and its school-boy champion, Johnny McLane, who, in a practice meet against the Crimson last month set an unofficial national scholastic record of 2:01.5 for the 200 yard freestyle event. The Yardling record stands at two wins and one loss for the season...
...Champion of the Yard circuit will meet the house League leader in a post-season tilt. The new league will officially get under way at 3 o'clock this afternoon as the Holworthy Vets meet the Straus Sad Sacks, and the Stoughton Raiders share the floor with the Thayer Hall Aesthetes...
England's tennis-playing ladies had taken a terrible drubbing from the U.S. Wightman Cup team last summer at Wimbledon. Last week the English girls began getting free instruction from an enemy agent, onetime U.S. Women's Champion Alice Marble. The thing she missed most in their playing: the killer spirit...
Died. Dr. Morris Raphael Cohen, 66, Russian-born philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, writer and wit; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. The big-domed professor was an intimate of famous minds (Einstein, Cardozo, Holmes), a sharp-tongued champion of students, author of several notable books (Faith of a Liberal...
Help for Alleghany. Popular champion that he was, Bob Young also had his hands on a greater potential monopoly than any other railroader. He got his hands on it when he bought control of Alleghany Corp. in 1937. This fantastic financial Humpty Dumpty, put together by Cleveland's famed Van Sweringen brothers, O.P. and M.J., was one of the worst examples of giddy railroad financing of the '20s. After it crashed in 1932, no one thought it could ever be put together again...