Word: champion
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Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...
...gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black man in every French Cabinet. His Marxist enemies back home pictured him as an "African Bao Dai," willing to sacrifice his people...
Musical history has not been kind to the memories of Johann Kittl, Anton Titl and Rudolf Bibl, three 19th century composers whose reputations were as truncated as their names. Nevertheless, K.T.&B. have an outspoken champion- Boston Composer-Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. Along with some 10,000 other menand women-about-music, the three have recently been embalmed in an impressive Slonimsky-built ossuary of pure research: the 1,855-page fifth edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (G. Schirmer...
Born. To Harold Connolly, 27, the U.S.'s 1956 Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.-just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer...
Cornell: Singles--Rubell (C) d. Weld (H), 9-7, 6-4; Champion (C) d. Gallwey (H), 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Bowditch (H) d. Mueller (C), 6-3, 7-5; Vinton (H) d. Dugan (C), 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; Wood (H) d. Sun (C), 6-1, 6-2; Cameron (H) d. Bravermann (C), 6-0, 13-11. Doubles--Weld-Bowditch (H) d. Rubell-Champion (C), 6-1, 4-6, 6-0; Gallwey-Vinton (H) d. Mueller-Dugan (C), 6-3, 6-3; Pratt-Cameron (H) d. Sun Bravermann...