Word: champion
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...Champion & a Lady. It took Billie Jean a whole year to come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 to noon). The final round of the 96th British Open, live via satellite from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake, with everyone gunning for Defending Champion-and U.S. Open Kingpin-Jack Nicklaus...
...blushing "tie twiddle" and exasperated slow burn and Stan's tearless, whimpering crying jag and flip-flopping walk (which he achieved by cutting the soles off his shoes). For some reason, women do not appreciate the humor as much as men do. Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives. Typical is the scene in which an amorous Ollie kisses his pinkie and touches it to his wife's lips-whereupon she bites it with a crunch...
Died. Primo Camera, 60, briefly heavyweight champion of the world and one of sport's more tragic figures; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Sequals, Italy, 34 years to the day after winning the title. At 6 ft. 5¾ in. and 267 Ibs., "Da Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship...
Naturally, we are waiting for the playwright to champion his individualists, no matter how loathsome they are, over that bourgoeis juggernaut. But he never does; he never takes sides. He doesn't entirely approve of either the Jacksons or the Sawneys, but he writes a play about them because they are all good for a laugh. John Arden is a playwright who has negative capability in spades...