Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love") Macfadden, 76, senescent strong man and ex-publisher (True Story, Physical Culture), was still fighting for a divorce after 15 years' separation from his wife Mary. He appeared in a Miami court, in sky-blue sports jacket with matching suspenders, to complain that the onetime London beauty champion (1912) had let her figure get completely out of hand: "I wanted her to be an example of my work and a credit...
Fred Perry, 36-year-old ex-world champion tennist (amateur and pro), was sued for divorce by his second wife, who charged cruelty. (Cinemactress Helen Vinson had divorced him in 1940 after complaining that he made her attend all his tennis matches...
...last week's New York Boxing Writers' luncheon, the world's welterweight champion was invited to say a few words. For four years Freddie ("The Red") Cochrane had been patiently awaiting such an opportunity. Said...
...Where do you bums get off calling me a bum ... a cheese champion? ... I know I haven't defended the title. . . . But I couldn't very well do that and ride around the Pacific. I wore a Navy uniform three and a half years. . . . While I was away, you kept referring to Ray Robinson as the 'uncrowned welterweight champion...
...Chapman is a man with plenty of bounce; he is also too lucky and too versatile to be kept down for long. After twelve stormy years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a big-league manager...