Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most any night now you will find one of two Ohioans presiding over the piano in the Student's Club. If it's boogie-woogie or live you want, your champion will be Bob Norris of the Midshipmen-Officers' School. If your tastes run along sweet or semi-classical lines, Dick Hucks of the junior class will hold forth. Their common meeting ground is the "Cow-Cow Boogie"; after that it's every man for himself...
...dizzily as one of his own comedies if it were not, in essence, so intensely bitter. On his first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
...TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost the last of its great personal editors, a friendly and forceful champion of freedom...
...West Coast's major-league champion got his nickname from base-running antics while wearing his father's overalls as a nine-year-old member of the Dubuque (Iowa) Ninth Street Blues. Now 64, he dresses like a tailor's ad, drinks champagne cocktails and has been called "the most lovable guy in the whole damn game." As president of Los Angeles' Angels, Pants earned The Sporting News's (TIME, Nov. 8) title of No. 1 minor-league executive last year...
...Burk was a lanky, wide-eyed New Jersey kid who couldn't keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...