Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chant-"Olmedo! Olmedo! Ol-me-do!"-crashed across the apron as the champion, tall in his crisp blue suit, threw his arms around Sponsor Harten in an abrazo. With tears running down his face, he hugged his mother and father, his seven-year-old sister and his five brothers. That afternoon at Lima's National Stadium, President Manuel Prado decorated him with the Sporting Laurel of Peru (First Degree). Olmedo posed with the Davis Cup. then played a fast exhibition match against a fellow Davis Cup team member, St. Louis' Earl Buchholz. Appropriately, Olmedo...
...Fabiani, who was brought to the U.S. when he was three, and played violin with the Chicago Opera Co. when he was in his early 20s, tried his hand at concert management. But at the opera one evening, Jim ("The Golden Greek'') Londos, onetime heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, persuaded him that the real money was in the wrestling ring. Publicity-wise Ray Fabiani set up scholarships for young wrestlers (the recipients were sent to a muscle-building gymnasium), lured ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis into a brief and unrewarding wrestling career, spiced his programs with talks...
...private eye in peewees, and though he always brings the villain to account, he usually tempers justice with money. At 41, bulb-nosed, thrice-married Actor Boone, a veteran of TV's Medic, is well-preserved in a rugged, meaty way (he was light-heavyweight boxing champion at Stanford). Has gun (Colt .44), will travel on horses, but much prefers sports cars...
Marriage Revealed. Joe Louis, 44, heavyweight champion (1937-48), who recently formed a film company to do a TV series based on his life; and Martha Jefferson, 46, Los Angeles attorney, still a law partner of her previous husband; his fourth marriage, third wife (the first Mrs. Louis remarried him after a divorce) ; in Winterhaven, Calif., March...
...young St. Petersburg philosophy student, Nikolai Apollonovich, who has got mixed up with a seedy revolutionary gang and has committed himself to planting a bomb. The trouble is that the target is his own father -an elderly, rich and humorless bureaucrat just below Cabinet rank and a champion of the Czarist regime. His much younger wife has left him; his son despises him, and most people fear him, actually, he is a harmless little man whose sole commitment is to the civil service. But it is 1905 and Russia has just taken a beating from Japan, factory workers are striking...