Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys who dropped out of the race when they got to Wellesley. But after the show-offs were gone, pale, frail Franjo Mihalic, 36, a Yugoslav printer, outlegged all the other hoofers to win the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind in 2:25:54. Second: Boston's defending champion, John J. Kelley...
...Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
...Cornell, Tim Gallwey, playing at first singles, easily defeated Floyd Downs 6-0, 6-3. Second man, Fred Vinton, who normally plays the sixth singles position, lost to Kay Champion 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in a hard-fought match...
Since Junta did not play, Larry Sears moved up to the number one singles position. But the usually excellent lefty was in very poor form, losing to Richardson in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1. A former New England junior champion, Richardson completely outclassed Sears, displaying a fine net game and beautiful passing shots...
...lonely figures. In a rain of newspaper columns, magazine articles and books, he aimed his dyspeptic darts at every sobersided target from Hollywood to Herbert Hoover. Yet when Critic Nathan made his final exit last week at 76, the U.S. theater mourned the death (of arteriosclerosis) of its doughtiest champion...