Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Margaret Smith, 25, strapping queen of Australian tennis (twice Wimbledon winner, seven times Aussie national champion); and Barry Court, 26, real estate salesman; in Perth...
Quincy will now play the winner of Yale's intramural soccer contest during New Haven Weekend. At the moment Siliman, last year's champion is in the lead with a 7-1 record. With three games remaining in the Yale season, however, Dwight and Pierson Colleges still have shots at the title...
Little did anyone suspect that Oil Magnate J. Paul Getty, 74, is really the George Plimpton of Billionaire's Row. But at an Anglo-American Sporting Club dinner in London in honor of Jack Dempsey, 72, Getty recalled that 44 years ago he and the then-champion had climbed into the ring together. "Jack is one of the real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary...
...wiry British captain Jim Baker, Greater Boston individual champion, Harvard has demolished seven straight dual meet opponents and last Tuesday rallied in the last two miles to win the Greater Boston Championships over five other area teams...
...race for the championship has been tight all year. Quincy, now in first place, started the year by edging defending champion Eliot, 1-0, on a disputed goal in the last quarter. Quincy remains undefeated with a 5-0-2 record. Its defense has been the key to its success all year, holding on to ties or one goal victories in many crucial games...