Word: champion
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...national championship in 1929, 1932 and 1934, after mothering twin daughters named Betty and Peggy. As soon as Betty and Peggy got their growth and found time to give squash their full attention, they took over. For nearly every year since 1950, one or the other has been U.S. champion...
...winning his first National Amateur crown, Heckscher had to overcome a long series of obstacles, foremost among whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
...Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, upset by Johnny Busso in an over-the-weight bout last November, was in no mood to trifle when the two met again last week with the championship at stake. Bobbing, weaving and occasionally uncorking powerful rights, he bloodied the challenger, decked him in the ninth round, coasted to an easy unanimous decision...
...little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America, but he has gone back. I will never marry...
Died. Marshall Teague, 37, auto racer, A.A.A. national stock car champion in 1952 and 1954; in the 500-yd. rolling crash of a new Sumar Streamliner; during a test run on the new speed track at Daytona Beach...