Word: champion
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...life & times subsequently appeared in People (TIME, Feb. 11), was so impressed with the work of the researcher who interviewed him that he applied for a job as People writer. We are also indebted to you for some of the items in MMP. In that category, however, our champion contributor is Capt. Frank Luckel, U.S. Navy (ret.), who has been sending us items-many of which we have printed-consistently for the last 16 years...
This week in Hartford, Conn., the first national championship since 1942 was fought out on the spic-&-span, allwood courts of the Hartford Golf Club. Defending Champion Charlie Brinton, 26, is a Philadelphian, and an ex-G.I. So is his No. 1 rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots...
...gave up bobsledding six years ago. Then big, high-strung Bill Linney got the itch again and vowed he would become U.S. bobsled champion. An engineer by trade, he went about it with an engineer's eye for detail...
...After Champion tied the score at two all, sinking a pair of free throws, the Stahlmen took and held the lead. They had to move fast, however, to keep ahead of the sharpshooting Chelsea five. Using the fast break, peppering the basket from the corners, and working around Decsi's pivot work, the Crimson quintet looked strong in their ninth straight victory...
Eight teams will be chosen to appear in the national playoff games. The four Eastern squads will battle it out in New York on Thursday and Saturday, March 21 and 23. Then the Eastern finalists will face the Western champion, chosen from playoffs held at the same time in Kansas City, in the final round on Tuesday, March...