Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as the campaign rushed to a climax, Champion McKay was still ahead. But Challenger Hitchcock was running better than anyone thought he would...
...government's monopoly suit against the International Boxing Club and Madison Square Garden, a U.S. attorney introduced a terse memorandum, penned in 1949 by the Garden's president (now board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken...
...with a mission: to run his fifth better-than-four-minute mile, and drum up enthusiasm for the coming Olympics in Melbourne. University of Oregon Junior Jim Bailey, another Aussie, saw as his own duty the modest task of pushing Landy to his fullest effort. N.C.A.A. Champion Bailey had never come close to Landy's record (3:58) in his life. Neither had any of the other five milers in the race...
Almost as if he remembered what a disappointment he had been at Churchill Downs just a year ago, Leslie Combs's four-year-old champion, Nashua, seemed determined to let nothing stop him from winning the $55,200 Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. He stumbled coming out of the starting gate and fell to his knees. Another horse might have quit. Not Nashua. Under Jockey Ted Atkinson's urging, he came on to outlast a fast field and finished a head in front of Alfred...
...with his drivers and (unlike most automakers) gives them a guaranteed minimum, win or lose, thus has his pick of the world's best drivers. He picks his pilots with the care he puts into tuning an engine, teams a cool, canny technician such as World Champion Juan Fangio with a hotspur such as Eugenio Castellotti, who won this year's Mille Miglia...