Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last summer all concerned were ready for a compromise. Once out of power, the Labor Party, which had originally decreed his banishment, became a champion of the young chieftain's return. At Labor's prompting, Seretse and his uncle got together again and agreed to draw up documents by which each renounced all rights to the contested throne. With this accomplished, the Tory government agreed to let both return to Bechuanaland as private citizens, with the right to help rule the land of their ancestors as two members of the governing council...
...summer long, the world champion Dodgers lurched, stumbled and staggered. All summer long, the Milwaukee Braves played steady, unspectacular ball. Early last week, still one game behind the Braves, Manager Walter Alston put all his chips on a pitcher who almost hadn't been there: blue-jawed, saturnine Salvatore Anthony Maglie. Cast off by the Giants, picked up by the Cleveland Indians and cast off again, ancient (39) Sal Maglie had been bought by Brooklyn only as possible second-line insurance. On that chilly evening last week, Maglie kept his hairline curve under perfect control, had the Philadelphia hitters...
...types of records, even rolled through the hot weather when sales usually slump. In 26 weeks this year, Columbia's album of the score from Broadway's My Fair Lady (TIME, June 25) sold more than 653,000 copies, about half as many as the alltime champion, Columbia's South Pacific, has sold since 1949. Also climbing high in the sale of classical recordings, traditionally 25% of the market, and specialty albums, e.g., sports, plays, literary readings, politics. Last month ABC-Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower's speeches, from...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...
...remarkable display of depth, the varsity placed its entire 12-man squad ahead of the first M.I.T. team, and only a second place finish by B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion, George Hillier, deprived the Crimson of cross country's equivalent of the perfect game...