Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title at stake was the New York State Athletic Commission version of the lightweight "world championship." The National Boxing Association, recognized by 37 states, also has a "world champion" lightweight, Sammy Angott, who fights once more before meeting Montgomery March...
There were 16 knockouts in the weeklong finals, the most professional job by French Seaman Marcel Cerdan. The wel terweight champion of prewar Europe twice floored U.S. Private Joe DiMartino of Bridgeport, Conn, before the damage was halted. Cerdan is already under post war contract with the Hollywood Stadium...
...heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...
Another front-line fighter from the Fifth who won: professional bantamweight Champion Marshall Higa, Hawaiian-born of Jap parents. (For news of another Hawaiian hero, see ,p. 16.) From General Sir Henry Maitland (";Jumbo") Wilson down, the brassiest hats of the North African Theater were among the 80,000 who saw and cheered the six-day finals. Up to officials in Washington is their proposal: that the eight amateur champions be sent to the U.S. to fight the best amateurs on the home front...
...General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion hog caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to convince the hogs you have something for them...