Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey ("Toy Bulldog") Walker, 46, who used to be middleweight and welterweight champion of the world, won the job of sports editor of the Police Gazette...
Elmer ("Bud") Linderman, world's champion rodeo cowpuncher last year, was fined $25 in Denver for people-punching in a nightclub...
...Europe, with his own Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ansermet is a lively champion of U.S. composers, whose music he ranks with the best being written in the world today...
...neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
...next week, if Canada's 12,500,000 prayers are answered, Barbara Ann will wear the crown of an Olympic champion. No Canadian from Vancouver to Halifax doubted that she would, but it was comforting nevertheless to hear one neutral European judge say: "Scott shows up the others when she merely skates on one foot in a straight line." The last skater to do that was Norway's brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract...