Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic party-like France's M.R.P. a champion of reform without revolution -overwhelmed its leftist rivals; it drew over 8,000,000 votes, almost double those given either the Communists or the Socialists. De Gasperi would almost certainly be the new government's prime minister...
After a nap, the 212-lb. champion climbed into the ring for a workout. His lethal right hand, the payoff weapon, looked like a lead weight. His left seemed to have lost its old lightning. His legs had thickened at the thighs. Said Joe: "I know I look lousy. . . it's just the way I planned it." He knew that the time to look good was for one hour on the night of June 19, in Yankee Stadium...
...Madison Square Garden last week, the fans showed what they thought of Uncle Mike's prices. Just before Willie Pep knocked out Sal Bartolo to become undisputed featherweight champion, the fight announcer ballyhooed the details of the coming heavyweight fight, and was drowned out by boos. The day before, Manhattan police raided the Jacobs Ticket Agency, just around the corner from Mike's office, found the best seats being scalped...
Died. John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson, 68, first Negro heavyweight champion of the world (1908-15); of auto-accident in juries; near Franklinton, N.C., Texas-born, "Li'l Artha" fought for a living (and a high one) for 29 years. A fine defensive boxer, Johnson won his title from Canadian Tommy Burns in 1908, lost it to Jess Willard in 1915, precariously passed the latter years of his life on the ragged edge of show business...
Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...