Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisive volley was a pair of announcements last week by Australia's top singles players, Lewis Hoad and Kenneth Rosewall, declaring that they would stay in amateur tennis and rejecting the $45,000-a-year professional contracts offered them by U.S. Promoter Jack Kramer. Since U.S. Singles Champion Tony Trabert, the only U.S. player in the Australians' class, has already signed a pro contract (TIME, Oct. 24), a successful U.S. challenge for the Davis Cup next year looks hopeless...
...National Women's Tennis Champion Doris Hart, 30, announced last week that she would turn professional to take a job as a tennis teacher at the Flamingo Hotel in Miami Beach. Said Champion Hart: "I'm tired of traveling, and I want to give the younger players the kind of help I never...
...Jimmy Carter, 31, of New York, who three times lost his lightweight title and twice regained it in return bouts, failed to turn the trick again. Champion Wallace ("Bud") Smith, 26, who dethroned Carter last June, defeated him again in a 15-round bout at Cincinnati...
...starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
According to McCurdy, anyone who can do a mile in five minutes has good prospects as a champion harrier...