Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, popular, 40-year-old Prince Gustaf Adolf's future was assured. Famed in his own right as an Olympic champion horseman, he would one day succeed his 88-year-old grandfather and 64-year-old father as King of Sweden...
When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...
...Berlin, fierce-browed ex-Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, who had been training all winter, was cleared in the British zone of having Nazi connections. It meant that he could now fight in the U.S. zone-or even in the U.S., if he cared...
...these defiant trumpet blasts he had established himself firmly as the champion of the people against what he loved to call the "banker-dominated railroads." The Department of Justice, blessing his efforts, had asked the Supreme Court to take away the Pullman Co. from 35 railroads which wanted to operate it, and turn it over to Bob Young...
When the basketball season closes next term, Coach Bill Barclay will step into a new role as chief of the Crimson golfers. The former Michigan star boasts a long record in both professional and amateur circles, having coached for five years after establishing himself as State amateur champion before...