Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the slush outside I trudged to the far side of the library. I was again met with suspicion, but again the guardian of the gate became my champion. It was a man this time-and he, too, began phoning people...
...explained that I was an American correspondent. She became my champion. She went to a phone and began calling people. Finally: "Go out and to the far side of the library. There you can get a visitor's pass...
...More Fight. Before he stepped into the ring against Sugar Ray, Jimmy promised his father that it would be his last fight-unless he won. He wanted enough money to go into business in California, managing and training other fighters. Last week, 17 hours after Champion Robinson flattened him, 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle died of a cerebral hemorrhage, the first death in a championship fight in modern U.S. boxing history...
Next day at the inquest the Cleveland coroner asked Sugar Ray Robinson if he noticed whether Doyle was in trouble during the fight. Said Sugar Ray, giving him the best answer a professional boxer could: "Getting him in trouble is my business as a boxer and a champion...
Welterweight Boxing Championship (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC). Champion Ray Robinson v. Jimmy Doyle...