Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada, the cradle of professional hockey talent, once again had drawn a bead on the National Hockey League crown. With the new season barely two weeks old, last year's Runner-Up Toronto Maple Leafs and Champion Montreal Canadiens were leading the league. Toronto was sitting pretty with six straight wins, one loss; Montreal had won four, lost...
Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration...
China's Friend. Of all Americans, Joe Stilwell should apparently be persona gratissima to the Chinese. He is a staunch admirer of China, a close friend of her big & little people, a champion of her causes, a student of her culture. He is a rare "old China hand" who knows the language so well that he can think in Chinese-one of that surprisingly large number of Americans who have overcome the barrier of an Asiatic language to become unofficial legates in the high tradition of U.S.-Chinese friendship...
...champion handicap horse of 1944 is a flop-eared tomboy that her friends call Susie. Many consider her the greatest filly ever to race in the U.S. Says Calumet Farm's Trainer Ben Jones: "Next to Whirlaway, this is the best horse I ever trained. She's so much better than Lawrin and Pensive [both Kentucky Derby winners]. So much, really." Last week at Baltimore, racing under her official program name, Twilight Tear, she made a rompaway of the winner-take-all ($25,000) Pimlico Special. It was her 14th win in 17 tries this year, and brought...
Married. Gloria Marie Callen, 20, beauteous U.S. backstroke champion, holder of 31 national swimming records, Barnard College Junior; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Herbert Erskine Jones Jr., 23, 1942 Princeton crew captain, now in the submarine service; in Manhattan...