Word: championing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
...tennis, but he is not the man to fret long hours over improving his backhand, or his serve, or his volley. Says he: "I just want my whole game to get better all over." At 20, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.) Pancho is the most thoroughly unstudied champion ever to win the U.S. National singles crown...
...morning of the semifinals, Gonzales awoke with his left ankle sore and swollen. He paid no attention to it, waded through ex-National Singles Champion Don Mc-Neill...
...finals, he squared off against Defending Indoor Champion Billy Talbert, ranked No. 4 in the national ratings but No. 1 on boards. When Pancho's big service was booming in, about all Talbert could do was wave at it. Talbert went down...
...women's indoor championships, California's bouncy 25-year-old Gertrude ("Gussie") Moran took the court for the finals against fellow Californian Nancy Chaffee. Gussie was out to prove that her strong semifinals play against National Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont at Forest Hills last September was no fluke. She did; hitting a powerful ball, she made it a 35-minute match...