Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lightweight boxing champion Ike Williams was suspended by the National Boxing Association yesterday for failing to honor a contract for a fight with Bernard Docusen...
...fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell...
Divorced. William Saroyan, 41, literary show-off (he has admitted to being a genius) and champion of "the beautiful people" in short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), hit plays (The Time of Your Life) and novels (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 24, New York socialite; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Harvard sports afielendos are, evidently, supposed to be at least mildly interested in this book because Richard T. Button '52--men's World, men's Olympic, men's European, men's North American, and national men's figure skating champion has been included. His story is told in one of 17 chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite...
...spring term, the total points each dormitory has earned will be totaled to determine the Yard Intramural Athletic Champion. The top dormitory will receive a Yard version of the Straus Trophy, given annually to the winner of the House intramural contests. Hollis Tops Last Year...