Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
...charge of the grapplers for the last month has been Jay Thomas, but when Boston reaches the wrestling room on Monday, Thomas will become Freshman coach. Boston's plans for handling the squad will run strictly along Varsity lines, however. A Crimson heavyweight Intercollegiate champion eight years ago, Chief will probably work mainly with the heavier man on the squad while Thomas, also a champ but in the 121-pound class, will handle the lighter Weights...
...Business reporter in referring to gold-plated steaks from T. O. Pride [Nov. 4] has smeared the gold on with a lavish hand. Sirloin from this steer would be worth nearer $125 than $1,250 a pound. Perhaps in drooling over the thought of sirloin (with mushrooms) from this champion, his enthusiasm prompted him to place the decimal point one place too far to the right. Right...
...child chess prodigy who is now a Boston accountant, lets his more impetuous opponents beat themselves. One of them, Stephen Kowalski, was so confused by Reshevsky's tactics that he failed to think up the required 45 moves in two and a quarter hours, and was counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful not to annoy him during this difficult...
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...