Word: championed
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Sheen started life over his father's hardware store in El Paso, 111. (pop. 2,550), near Peoria. He was a debate champion in college and earned a doctorate at Louvain University in Belgium. Before TV stardom he was a renowned philosophy professor at Catholic University of America, and a pioneer radio preacher whose programs drew 6,000 letters a day. He wrote more than 50 books (among them God and Intelligence, Peace of Soul, Three to Get Married), and was almost as famous for person-to-person conversions as for oratory. Among his worldly converts: Louis Budenz, managing...
DIED. Jon Hall, 66, he-man actor who "was swept to stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for portraying loincloth-clad is landers and bare-chested sheiks (Arabian Nights...
...name is Sonny Steele. He is played by Robert Redford. He is the ultimate Rhinestone Cowboy, a five-time world's champion rodeo rider now reduced morally, if not economically, by having to hustle Ranch Breakfast, a conglomerate's cereal. He is frequently obliged to ride out into darkened stadiums wearing a suitful of colored lights while carrying a snootful of whisky in order to dull the pain of exploitation...
SUGAR BOWL: Alabama (11-0) vs. Arkansas (10-1)--Wouldn't it serve the Southeastern Conference right if Arkansas shellacked Alabama? Any conference that gave Georgia, a 6-5 team, the chance to be conference champion (which would have happened had the Tide lost to Auburn last week) deserves to get blown out. But signal-caller Steadman Shealy runs Alabama with precision, and barring fumbles the Tide will roll. Alabama 24, Arkansas...
...Johnson and Ellen Hart also shined at Saturday's eclipse of UNH. Johnson tossed the shot 42 ft. 10 ins., more than eight feet farther than her closest competitor. Hart, who was injured playing for the Ivy champion soccer team earlier this year, slid by pace-setting Crimson cocaptain Kat Taylor and a UNH runner in the last lap to win the two-mile...