Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, from Madrid to Melbourne, he had been eating in hotels and hash-houses, sleeping when he could, trying to stay fit for one big match after another. Last week Big Jake cast a quizzical eye upon 190-lb. Pancho Gonzales, 21, twice U.S. amateur champion and current aspirant to Kramer's professional throne. Said Kramer: "He'll melt off some of that weight, and every pound will make it tougher on me. Pancho didn't get enough work as an amateur...
...Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
...seem, the better parts of the current so-called extravaganza do not involve Mr. Autry. He breaks up the program nicely, coming on twice, in events number four and 11 (there are 14 altogether), and appearing just long enough to knock off a few songs, send his horse Champion and the up-and-coming Little Champion through their paces, and introduce a bunch of Pueblo, Indian dancers from New Mexico. Champion, a handsome animal, dances to the Army Air Corps song, "La Cucaracha," and "The Blue Danube" and bounds through a couple of hoops; Little Champion also makes with...
Profitable Failure. Politically, the White House inner operatives thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost...
...golf team finished its fall tryouts last Friday at the Dedham Golf Club with a former Cincinnati Junior Chamber of Commerce champion, Dave Gorman, Captain Bob Matson, and Hugh Nawn shooting low scores of 73, 73, and 74 respectively...