Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...
...Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...
...domestic problems exist and must be solved, but occupied Germany is not the place to consider them, and such discussions simply becloud the issue of German war guilt. To borrow a twist from the world heavyweight champion, T Sgt. Joe Louis, a G.I. who isn't tongue-tied at critical moments: "There ain't nothing wrong with us that Mr. Hitler...
Stars & Averages. When Bill ("Swish") Nicholson, last year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...
...There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford. Some of them used to get to row on one of "Pater" Sill's Henley champion ship crews...