Word: champions
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Versatile is the word which best describes blondthatched Dave Freeman, Pomona College sophomore, and 19-year-old champion athlete. Freeman divides his time between badminton, tennis, pingpong (table tennis) and golf. He holds the 1939 national men's badminton title and the 1938 national junior tennis championship. In ping pong he is California junior champion. Golf is strictly a division, yet he shoots near par. He won the first of his many titles in boys ping pong at the age of 13, won only a few small trophies until he was 17, since then has won scores of handsome gold...
...YORK-Promoter Mike Jacobs announced tonight that heavyweight champion Joe Louis will make his next title defense against Arturo Dodoy of Chile at Madison Square Garden on Feb.9
...than a disabled one, which must be escorted home. To disable a battleship, an air bomber need not score direct hits. Bombs landing beside a hull may do more damage, especially to steering mechanism, than direct hits on an armored deck. Major Al Williams, U. S. A., a vociferous champion of the airplane over the battleship, who believes the German Air Force (which he inspected intimately last year) can knock out the British Navy, says: "A pure air war has not been fought, but I'll tell you one thing, air power is respected by all naval strategists...
...Champion. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born a native-daughter of Maine, but she early began to crow like a child of the universe. At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations. When Millay settled down in Greenwich Village, after graduating from Vassar in 1917, she was widely accepted by literary professionals as the most fascinating prodigy in America...
...shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...