Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks Judge Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before...
...their in-laws, endure without protest their husbands' infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister-in-law and official hostess of Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, dainty Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 30, a Christian, is not only the first lady of a Buddhist land; she is also the most determined feminist since the late Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst...
Divorced. By Donna Atwood, 33, retired professional skater (Ice Capades), U.S. junior women's skating champion in 1941: John H. Harris, 60, producer of Ice Capades; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica. Calif...
...Crimson's Joel Landau turned in a creditable performance, taking fourth in the high hurdles. Landau's opposition, probably the finest hurdle field ever assembled in this part of the country, included Lee Calhoun of North Carolina, the reigning Olympic champion; Keith Gardner of Nebraska, the Big Eight king; and Charlie Pratt of the Philadelphia Pioneers, a former national decathlon winner...
...Truesdale, Jr. '44, committee chairman, gives top seeds in the annual tourney to Diehl Mateer, recent winner of the U.S. Open at Pittsburgh, and Henri Salaun, current national amateur champion. Both have dominated the last nine New York tournaments. Mateer has won five, and Salaun has won four times, including the last...