Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acquired an ecstatic admiration for tall buildings and vanilla ice cream. In the encounter of two such dynamic protagonists as Villa-Lobos and the U.S., onlookers expected even more to happen before he returns to Rio de Janeiro, where he is the city's amateur three-cushion billiards champion as well as musical overlord of Brazil's Ministry of Education...
Dummies and Wives. Two Cavendish members- George Rapee, 29-year-old U.S. individual world contract bridge champion, and Howard Schencken, longtime a Life Master, famed as the bridge experts' expert- are at work on a Check guidebook...
Says Bridge Champion Rapee: "Check is a welcome relief . . . from racking your brain over a mathematical bridge hand. . . ... Your interest is always kept up by the fast play . . . and you're never a dummy." Mrs. Helen Sobel, chic, cool No. 1 woman bridge expert, tried her hand at the game, gave an unexpected reason for its probable popularity: "A husband won't be able to tell his wife he's going out to play pinochle with the boys. . . . From now on, every wife can be part of the game...
Died. Lieut. Joseph R. Hunt, U.S.N., 26, national men's singles tennis champion in 1943 ; in his fighter plane, which crashed during a gunnery-practice flight; off Daytona Beach...
...another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...