Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey Walker, welterweight-&-mid-dleweight -champion -turned-easel-painter, tried his luck as a Broadway actor. The show, Walk Hard, hit the canvas after seven performances. But critics found Walker "believable," applauded his "naturalness." His role: a prizefighter...
...year-old Vice President Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo. The Soviet Union's longtime trade-union chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union conferences in Britain. But he is isolationist enough...
Last week's grappling was the first since 1942. Some of the boys, back from the wars, had to be tapped for illegal holds. Even though 290-lb. George Bolas, Big Ten heavyweight champion from Ohio State, flattened the Aggies' No. 1 muscle man, Lloyd Arms, the Aggies managed to pin down championship No. 14. Team scores: Aggies, 25; Iowa Teachers...
Died. Dr. Alexander A. Alekhine, 53, world's chess champion (on & off) since 1927; of angina pectoris; in Estoril, Portugal. A former captain in the Czar's army, he once played 29 simultaneous games blindfolded, took time out for dinner, won them...
...Champion Swimmer Esther Williams, prettiest amphibian of them all, sliding and slithering through water lilies...