Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, John L. Lewis had played one role-the massive, threatening, bully-boy champion of his miners. Last fall he was challenged, fined, and-the U.S. thought-stripped of his power to strike. But the great opportunist, the master of vendetta, was only temporarily thwarted, not subdued...
Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks...
Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing champion of Europe, had a handicap to face in the U.S.; European boxers have a long-standing habit of being put to sleep or putting the customers to sleep. But when Marcel promptly pounded out a decision over George Abrams (TIME, Dec. 16), promoters began to look him over with eyes not only wide, but gleaming...
...land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
...scratch-yours" basis. Under this arrangement, Jack Benny last week assembled a "Million Dollar Quartet" (Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Andy Russell, Dennis Day) for only $3,000. Russell, the only one without a radio show of his own, was the only one Benny had to pay. World's Champion Back-Scratcher is Bob Hope, who solemnly estimates that during the next month he will spend more than half his waking hours in broadcasting studios...