Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavyweight Champion Jim Jeffries, who lives quietly on his farming and dairy ranch near Burbank, Calif., came out of his shell for the holiday season to serve as the town's official Santa Claus...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini, already heavy with honors, garnered a new one. After an NBC Symphony rehearsal, an amateur photographer caught him beaming and being congratulated by onetime Heavyweight Champion Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Carnera, now a prosperous wrestler. It developed that they are mutual admirers...
Felton took fourth place in the 1948 Olympic hammer throw, while Dreyer, of the New York Athletic Association, was nine times national champion in the 35-lb. weight class. Burnham, captain of the Dartmouth track team, will attempt to break the Dartmouth record in this event, and if as he is up to form has a good chance of doing...
Dunster last year's champion, picked up two Jayvees in the draws, and retained three regulars. The team will lose most of what little height it has at midyears when center and pivot man John Brunsman (6"3") graduates. At least till then the style of play will be short pass, ball handling with feedins to the pivot. The tentative lineup includes: Jack Norman, Wally Baker, Chuck Brynteson, Dave Warden, Al Rosenberg, and Len Ragozin...
...considerable gloom pervades the rest of the division. Leverett's regulars are scattered, and the Jayvees offer little support, the sole ray of sunshine being the presence of three members of last year's champion Yard team. Practices indicate that the team may well be better than last year's seventh place outfit, but in the new hopped-up league, a little improvement is a dangerous thing. No certain lineup can be perceived in the flux but the following are among the leaders: Dave Belcher, Jim Ross, Tom Unverferth, Sam Seager, and Browy Craig...