Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page historical novel, Remembrance Rock, completed, Author-Farmer Carl Sandburg took some time off for his other big interest. A photographer spotted him on his Flat Rock, N.C. farm exchanging appraising glances with Alison, a champion milk-producing goat...
...Grand American Handicap, the World Series of trapshooting, there are no favorites, for no champion has ever succeeded in repeating. One morning last week, competing in his first Grand American, a Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
...Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, he ate California grapes, munched a hamburger, downed chocolate milk and lemonade. He posed with, but refused to kiss, the Toni Twins. "That would be like Jim Folsom," he explained. He laid a hand on the back of a 1,500-lb. grand champion Hereford bull, awarded a silver platter to the owner of a prize boar, and shook 1,650 hands in 55 minutes. At every stop, he was mobbed by autograph seekers. Illinois Republicans could not have been more pleased...
...challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...
Died. Tommy Ryan (real name: Joseph Youngs), 78, prizefighter of the skin-tight glove era, who won fame in 1891 when he knocked out Danny Needham in the 76th round, retired as middleweight champion of the world in 1907; in Los Angeles...