Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duncan quietly practiced six operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company...
...loss for tomorrow's game of Bill Jenkins, best open-field runner on the squad, of guards Ted Woggon and Mal Allen, and of end Paul Champion will undoubtedly make the Crimson less favored to repeat its 13 to 6 victory over the Jumbos in last year's opener...
Sergeant Joe Louis received the Legion of Merit medal for treating two million G.I.s to several million dollars worth of his pugilistic skill. Said Major General Clarence H. Kells: "You have made one of the greatest contributions to the reconditioning program for veterans. . . ." Said the laconic champion: "Sir, I am sincerely grateful." (Joe gently chided a youngster who asked him how he licked Max Schmeling: "Remember, little fellow, he beat...
With some wonderment in its tone, Canadian Military Headquarters in London said that in the field of absence-with-out-leave Adrien Demers was probably "standing broad-jump champion" of the Canadian or any other army. In Bordon, Hampshire, last week, the stubby, 35-year-old lance corporal from South Granby, Quebec, blandly pleaded guilty to being AWOL for "1,692 days, twelve hours, 20 minutes...
...long silence emerged the grand old man of a bygone Japanese liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...