Word: champion
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Like all of Chekhov, The Three Sisters is open to several interpretations, but to make it insipid, boring and silly requires Ball's gall as well as his company's ineptitude. As the guest director of Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, Gower Champion manages to intrude defects on the play that it never possessed. Feydeau was to the French bedroom farce what Einstein was to the theory of relativity. With gimmicks and gaucherie, Champion botches all of Feydeau's intricately precise equations of who-is-sleeping-with-whom-be-hind-which-door...
Died. Walter Hagen, 76, one of golf's all-time champions, holder of five P.G.A., two U.S. and four British Open titles; of throat cancer; near Traverse City, Mich. A onetime caddy who won his first U.S. Open at the age of 21, "the Haig" did more to popularize golf than any other player. In an era of small purses, he was the first to win $1,000,000 (which he spent as fast as he made); his sartorial elegance and dramatic come-from-behind victories, drew huge galleries wherever he played. All through the 1920s, fans argued whether...
Penn's soccer team, which upset defending champion Brown last week, moved into sole possession of first place in the Ivy standings with a 4-1 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday...
...Itheca. Nick Alexandridis, the league scoring champion for the past two years, put on a one-man show for Cornell fans. He scored three times and assisted on the final goal of the game with eight minutes to play as the Big Red edged Princeton...
...seconds, a new wave cascades from one end of the 2½ acre lagoon, carrying as many as 30 boards and bodies on waves up to five feet high. "You don't have to wait for that big one to come along," says Hawaii's Surfing Champion Fred Hemmings Jr., head instructor at the facility. "The surf is always...