Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INDIANAPOLIS, April 27--Their heavy-weight title fight only four days off, Champion Floyd Patterson and challenger Brian London honed themselves to a fine training edge in drills yesterday...
Alston Hoosman, 38, is a handsome, laughing bulk of a man (6 ft. 5 in., 225 Ibs.) who has always wanted to be a champion. He fought his way up to sixth place on the boxing press's list of U.S. heavyweights before Joe Louis knocked him out in Oakland, Calif, in 1949; then he drifted off to Europe, where he won some notice but not top billing as an actor in German films and TV. Last week Al Hoosman found himself an acknowledged champion at last-champion of the 5,000 luckless children born in Germany...
...Fidel Castro and the upper classmen of Caribbean democracy-Costa Rica's ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marín-who at first welcomed Castro as the young new champion of freedom...
Tournament of Champions (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The windup of the high-money ($40,000) invitational golf tournament at Las Vegas, with such shooters as Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., Arnold Palmer, Gene Littler and Gary Middlecoff gunning for the green...
Playwright Wincelberg may not write like a champion, but he obviously believes in handicapping himself like one. What keeps his melodramatic gamble from bankruptcy is the elemental tension of man against man, as it is reflected in the mirror-simple playing of Ben Piazza, as the American, and the emotionally prismatic portrayal of the Japanese by old (69) Silent Screen Star Sessue Hayakawa...