Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warlord of Mazelaine-champion boxer-TIME, Feb. 25] in a show last year, and I found that he was very conceited in his own doggish manner. Could it be that he realizes his importance in the dog world? I don't think it is like a boxer to act this way, but such is life when you have all the things you want...
...sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles. The score...
...pool champion of Council Bluffs (Iowa) is the Rev. Jacob R. Perkins, 66, pastor of Council Bluffs' First Congregational Church. For 25 years, white-haired Pastor Perkins has been baptizing, marrying and burying Council Bluffs' Congregationalists. He has also become one of the town's best known and best loved citizens. He eats lunch and plays bottle pool at the Elks Club, joins the town's sportsmen on fishing expeditions on which his Job-like patience is legendary...
Rowe won 3 to 2, while Johnny Knowles, Bob Young, Bob Clarkson, Murray Levin, Milt Heath, Captain Charley Mulcahey, Bill Mayleas, and Dave Shephered, appearing in that order, dropped their matches. Watching from the sidelines was Glen Shively, Yale's Intercollegiate Squash Champion, who expects to be inducted into the Army this week...
Died. Edward ("Spike") Howard, 68, world's champion blood donor (1,100-odd pints); reportedly of a blood clot; in Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop...