Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, who lost prestige but none of a champion's prerogatives in 15 rounds against Jersey Joe Walcott, signed to defend his heavyweight title in June for the "last time," for 40% of everything (net receipts, movie, radio and television rights). Jersey Joe, the man he had to beat, was still sparring with the promoters: he wanted at least 25%, had been offered only 20%. Probable scene of the big fight: Yankee Stadium...
Some of the amateurs, who-included Jimmy McLarnin, ex-welterweight champion, and Ernie Nevers, Stanford's great All-America of 23 years ago, did better. Bing, proud of himself at getting across the abyss to the edge of the green, flubbed a second shot that most schoolkids could have made...
...enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
Applegate the Mystic was the unfortunately successful champion of an extremely well planned out trick, but Kimball had nothing to do with the mechanics of the Smoker Committee election in which Appellate made his debut. Kimball has been serving on the Freshman Affairs Committee, a group distinct from that which ran the smoker committee election...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Bing Crosby, 43 and balding, entered a hospital for a checkup the day after U.S. movie exhibitors* voted him box-office champion of the year-as he had been voted the three previous years. Next-most-magnetic, reported the exhibitors, was blonde Betty Grable, who also sings. Third best crowd-puller: Ingrid Bergman, even though no new Bergman movie was released all year...