Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over to each of the five other finalists in the ring-an English springer spaniel, a Pomeranian, a Boston terrier, a greyhound and a Doberman pinscher. But in the end, just before midnight, it was the Bedlington and his handler that he motioned to the ring's center. Champion Rock Ridge Night Rocket thus became 1948's top dog: "best in show" of 2,540 entries at the Westminster Dog Show, most prestigious event in U.S. dogdom...
...wouldn't last five minutes in an alley fight, lives in style at the Connecticut kennels of his owner, William A. Rockefeller (John D.'s grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...
Ozzie has always had an appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...
...Tailed Champion. By the seventh day, the red-faced U.S. was still hoping for its first Olympic victory. The girl who won it was slim, brown-haired Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other U.S. woman) a chance against Europe's talented stars. She was the first to ski down the tricky special slalom run, which had thawed and frozen again. For ten minutes she stood nervously at the top of the run, her eyes closed most of the time, while officials tested...
...cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...