Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
...hard pressed for a center. Meyer drove his clumsy recruit through dozens of daily dozens, interspersed with rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and whatever else might develop coordination until Mikan cried: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Slowly Mikan's muscles learned to obey. The onetime marble-shooting champion of Will County, Ill. eventually got the hang of shooting baskets with a marble champion's sharp accuracy, upped his per-game scoring average from 14 points in 1943 to a dazzling 23 points this year...
Divorced. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, youngest Wimbledon tennis champion in history (19 in 1931), ex-Davis Cup star, now co-owner (with Tennist Don Budge) of a swank Manhattan laundry; by Edith Betts Wood, 33, New York socialite; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
Married. Rose Bingham Fiske, 32, slender, pretty widow of Pilot Officer William Mead Lindley Fiske, champion Olympic bobsledder and first American to die flying for the R.A.F. in World War II (1940); and Lieut. Colonel John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, 32, elder son of Sir Digby Lawson, second baronet; he for the first time, she (once the Countess of Warwick) for the third; in London...