Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national champion Bulldogs boasted fine talent in the 50- and 100-yard free style (two men named Alan Ford and Brewster-Macfadden), but their ability elsewhere was not so deep...
...National A.A.U. meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, young Dixon ran a tactically perfect race, showing the stamina gained in years of crosscountry running. He kept well behind Defending Champion Gilbert Dodds, the Boston divinity student who invariably sets an exhausting pace from gun to gun. At least 12 yards behind as they went into the final lap, Dixon came through with a finishing kick that beat Dodds by a full yard. Time: 4 min. 9.6 sec.-only 2.2 seconds behind the world's indoor record. If Frank Dixon was not a Jesse Owens of the Mile...
...there were a champion U.S. blood donor, a Pittsburgh truck driver, Russell O. Armour, would appear to be it. Last week he gave his 41st pint in 42 months. Sometimes he has had to use fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around...
...snorting burlesque known as U.S. professional wrestling has developed a new kind of hokum called Australian Tag. Introduced in the Midwest this winter by Chicago Promoter Fred Kohler-who heard about it from Wrestling Referee Sam Clapham, onetime light-heavyweight champion of Australia-tag wrestling is just the old burlesque doubled. Instead of two-man foolery, each comedian inside the ropes has a partner just outside. When the insider appears to need relief, he can get it by struggling over to the ropes and tagging his partner. According to the rules, only two men are permitted in a ring...
...last week, Donald Marr Nelson fired one of his Vice Chairmen-square-jawed Ferdinand Eberstadt, spunky champion of the Army's theory that WPB must stick to materials control, thus indirectly control production. To another Vice Chairman, hornyhanded, hard-working Charles E. Wilson, chief advocate of the right of civilian review of all war production, Nelson virtually relinquished full powers...