Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whipped cream and frosting may a wedding cake make-but not a marriage. Only the shimmering talents of two superstars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and the agile hand of Director Gower Champion, make this confectionery adaptation of The Fourposter palatable...
...father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...
...that was already great," says Hannum, whose 76ers are currently the winningest team in the history of pro basketball. Last week they beat the Baltimore Bullets 121-115 for their 38th victory in 42 games. That boosted their Eastern Division lead to eight full games over the perennial world-champion Boston Celtics, whose own record of 28 wins and ten losses is nothing to sneer...
...defending Ivy champion's downfall was piped into Boston live via Channel 38 Saturday afternoon (at the same time the Big Red's wrestlers were losing to Harvard in Cambridge), and it gave tremendous incentive to the Crimson skaters when they took the ice before 2200 fans that evening...
...Harvard's first victory over Cornell in the 17 years coach Bob Pickett has been here. Cornell has been Ivy wrestling champion in nine of the past 11 seasons. Its loss Saturday reduces Cornell's Ivy record to 64-3, snapping a 31-game win streak...