Word: champions
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...colonial Philadelphia, there was a printer who was likewise a scientist, and who was hailed as the wisest man of his day . . . In 19th century Illinois, there was a rail splitter who was likewise a lawyer and who was hailed a champion of humanity . . . Education today can nurture for us the possibility of a thousand Franklins and a thousand Lincolns in a generation, where before we were fortunate to have...
Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin, outspoken champion of a live-virus vaccine (TIME, May 23), suggested that all three paralysis-causing strains used in the Salk preparation be thrown out. In their place he would put nonvirulent strains, which may be found in nature or "bred" selectively in the laboratory. Knowing that his audience was far from ready to accept live viruses, Dr. Sabin cannily reminded them that these too could be treated with formaldehyde. This would give double protection, and a Swedish researcher is working on such a vaccine right...
...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...
...Scared." When Defendant Flaherty took the stand, he pointed out that he had gone no farther than other sportswriters. But his vivid account of the scene in the dressing room was secondhand; he had not visited the dressing room. Flaherty's lawyers read a deposition from Ex-Champion Joe Louis, who said: "It seemed Nova was scared." How could Louis tell? "Well," he answered, "you look another fighter in the face and you know whether he's afraid from whether he looks...
...waters could be rough and the weather stormy, but no one could ever say that the trip had been dull. Last week, as he got set to retire, Morison was more than merely a great historian. He was also, in the tradition of Parkman and Prescott, the eloquent champion of history as the art of adventure...