Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that coaches and alumni were breaking rules in entertaining and recruiting star high-school athletes for conference teams. He thereupon fined every college in the conference last week. Oregon State College got off lightest: its fine was $25. The biggest was slapped on the best team: U.C.L.A., the conference champion, was fined...
...issued a warning: there must be no skullduggery. Nobody had ever before felt the need to issue such a warning at Epsom Downs' big race. But a rumor had gone around that the other jockeys were going to take it easy and let England's alltime champion rider, Gordon Richards, win (TIME, June 2). It was a chance to get Richards out of their hair: they had heard that wealthy little Jockey Richards would retire if he won the race on the odds-on favorite, Tudor Minstrel...
Born. To Joe Louis, 33, world's heavyweight boxing champion, and Marva Trotter Louis, 30: their second child, first son; in Mexico City. Name: Joe Jr. Weight: 11 Ibs. 8 oz. The parents, divorced in 1945, were secretly remarried about a year ago (Joe announced when the baby arrived). Explained Marva: "As far as Joe and I are concerned, we never recognized the divorce...
...maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...
Like the spelling champion of 1947 (see above), Teacher Neal is the product of a one-room schoolhouse. Now 46, she took up teaching 24 years ago "because my parents believed it was the thing for nice girls to do," keeps at it now "because I love it." She gets $1,900 a year. (Teachers with college degrees make $2,900 in Jackson, but Miss Neal has not yet had time to finish her studies.) To get by, Miss Neal takes tickets after school and Saturdays at the Fix Neighborhood Picture Show...