Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Joe Louis, who left the prizefight ring in 1942 as undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, returned from an overseas tour with plans for his future. The Brown Bomber declared he would go back to boxing after the war, to defend his title "at least once...
...boys who got this straight talk from New York's new Boxing Administrator Eddie Eagan (TIME, Jan. 22) was the world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
...Just get the champion in the ring with his opponent, and the champ will do the rest. "The task is to get penicillin to the microbes," said Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming. "You can do it with a simple spray, snuff or lozenges." He predicted penicillin in lipsticks and tooth paste. A Lancet report describes a penicillin spray as "effective" in stubborn staphylococcus skin infections-e.g., multiple boils, pustular acne, impetigo, hair-follicle inflammation...
John Elliott Rankin, Mississippi's demagogic champion of white supremacy, asked Congress to change its custom of calling the nine women members of the House "gentlewomen," instead proposed that they be called "ladies." Quoting dictionary definitions, Gentleman Rankin said: "The term 'gentlewoman' puts the ladies one social step below the 'gentleman' of the House . . . I for one recognize no social distinction...
Tommy Farr, battle-scarred, iron-jawed, onetime British heavyweight boxing champion, who stayed on his feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...