Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fines for noncompliance. In New York, Arabs began moving to put the Palestine question on the agenda of the September meeting of U.N.'s General Assembly (in which the Arab states have five votes). That might well be the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years...
Characteristically, he made the most of his time by boning up on world history and becoming the camp champion at Chinese checkers, ice skating, long distance walking, woodcutting. He bore the federal government no rancor. Said he: "I am enraged." But he added: "I am coolly enraged." He knew he still had the heart of the people...
Died. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, author (Port of New York), music and art critic, a guiding spirit of the American literary renaissance of the 1920s, founder (with Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank) of the "little magazine" Seven Arts, early champion of modernist Composers Stravinsky, Copland, Milhaud; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...types are played by Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish and Walter Brennan. The plot works hard to prove that the course of true love rarely runs smooth. No up-to-date writer of movie fan mail will be greatly surprised to learn that Cornel Wilde (his studio's male champion receiver of fan letters) gets a last-reel embrace from Jeanne Grain (fan mail runner-up to her studio's female champion Betty Grable...
...other Frenchmen in their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski had, in an article in The Nation, sharply taken issue with the Soviet Foreign Minister over his tactics of obfuscation and mystery--and Laski has been perhaps Russia's most eloquent champion in the Anglo-Saxon world...