Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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free-style championships; slim Tim Jecko splashed off with the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley as well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing...
...champion, the kibitzers are moved to uncommon awe. Bobby, they declare, is ganz meshuga, which is to say that he is quite addled. Though he celebrated his 15th birthday only last week, he already shows all the marks of the great grand masters of one of the oldest, most intricate games known...
...bothered. Winning the U.S. title makes him eligible for the interzonal finals this summer in Yugoslavia. And a good showing against the tough competition there would make him a potential challenger for the world championship-a title now being decided in Moscow between the defending champion, Russia's Vassily...
...bespectacled stylist, snuggled into her candy-striped long Johns and shot a surprising par 72. "I'm a hot-weather golfer," drawled Beverly, "but thanks to this dandy underwear, I've had a very good winter." Right behind her, only a stroke off, plodded the broad-beamed champion herself-affable Patty Berg, 40, seven-time winner and still favorite despite a painful trick knee...
...Bird's closest competitors for scoring honors this season: Syracuse's Dolph Schayes, 1,755, St. Louis' Bob Pettit, 1,644, and Cincinnati's Clyde Lovellette, 1,593. Next to those graceful giants, balding, knob-kneed, bony-shouldered George Yardley, 29, is an improbable-looking champion indeed. When he puts on his basketball uniform he looks like an absent-minded scientist who left home without his trousers. The illusion ends when the game starts. Then the Bird's loose, court-covering lope, his deft shots, his imperturbable balance in under-the-basket brawls, all blend...