Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fencing never become popular in the U.S.? Aldo Nadi, world fencing champion, has brooded over that poser ever since he arrived in the U.S. to teach the sport eight years ago. His conclusion: Americans consider fencing sissy...
...married to a former Follies girl (Rosemary Wallace) whom he taught to fence, he presides over his own Salle d'Armes in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, where his pupils include several U.S. fencing champions and a handful of celebrities: Tenor Richard Crooks, Writer Paul Gallico, Actress Lillian Gish. As a finished world champion, Nadi finds it unnecessary to train, likes to spend his evenings in expensive nightclubs...
...Barton, a Midshipman, took third in the shot put. Another Navy man, Robinson, tied with Dean Hennessey, captain elect of the Harvard basketball squad, for supremacy in the high jump, but handicaps kept both from placing. Willo Fisher, IC4A hammer throw champion, took first in that and the discus throw, as well as second in the shot...
...first time since Harvard's famed Eddie Mahan set down the world champion Boston Red Sox mine 1 to 0 in 1916, a Crimson baseball team invades the hallowed realms of the major leagues tomorrow afternoon, when the Varsity forces take on the Red Sox at Fenway Park at 3 o'clock...
...champion appeared on the scene in the heated bonds and stamps race when Kirkland House grabbed first place for the period from March 1 to April 5 with a total of $694.05, the War Service Committee announced last night...