Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Frank Stranahan, big-muscled British amateur golf champion, slipped out of bed, selected a No. 3 iron, drew back for a long approach shot, and thus persuaded a burglar to stand still and be good till the police came
Born. To Gustav George ("Gus") Lesnevich, 33, light-heavyweight boxing champion (since August 1941-a record), and Georgianna Dobson Lesnevich, 26, onetime model: their third and fourth children, twin daughters; in Englewood, N.J. Names: Georgia Alice, Jill Linda. Weights...
Utah State Agricultural College was the national champion in both the men's and women's division of both twenty-fifth and tenth reunion classes...
...course of his fistic career, Fuller has lost only once, on a split decision to Willie Clemens, national amateur Golden Gloves champion in 1947, while amassing a record of 31 victories 26 by knockouts. Two weeks ago in Providence he knocked out Sam Gladings with two punches in 21 seconds of the first round...
...writer. Then, in 1936, Gide and a party of friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero of a totalitarian state...