Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brisson was a sensation abroad for years, but he has never before scored in the U.S. Although his voice has velour on its chest, he is in no sense effete. Born Carl Petersen in Copenhagen, he stepped into the fight ring as a boy, rose to be "cruiserweight" champion of Europe. He stands 6 ft. 1½ in., weighs 178 lb., has a leonine head. His motion as well as his music gets them. He climbs casually all over the nightclub furniture, sings on his feet, on the back of a chair, on a table, on a customer...
...First champion on record: Theagenes of Thasos, Olympic victor of 450 B.C. His standard punching equipment included the cestus, a fist-stiffener of leather bands loaded with iron. He won 1,406 contests, in which he killed most of his opponents...
...doubles, Harvard lost two and won one. Sands and Bob Fineberg lost won one. Sands and Bob Fineberg lost 6-3, 6-2, to the Mathey, brothers, who are inter-scholastic doubles champions and whose father, Dean Mathey, was once national doubles champion. Rinaldi and that his netmen would do better at Andover tomorrow...
...handed best. Between jobs of surgery, one day in 1922, he stopped before a statue of Empire Builder Cecil John Rhodes in Rhodesia's capital of Salisbury, noted reflectively the marble finger pointing north, the pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...
...affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...