Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small: 5 ft. 4 in., 126 Ibs. He hoped to be heavyweight champion of the world, and he wanted to be called Tarzan. Recently, he had been insulted by a member of the Golden Guineas gang; the murder was intended to avenge his honor...
Cooney and Stokes led the qualifying round on the Yale University golf course Saturday with 36 hole medal scores of 144 and 146 respectively. Jerry Fehr, 1953 champion from Yale, qualified with...
Possibly the best varsity nine since the turn of the century was the 1916 squad, which ended the year with a 22-3 record. The season began with an auspicious 1 to 0 triumph over the World Champion Boston Red Sox. Come to think of it, the way the Sox are playing this year...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
...rough diamonds. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his mannered British wife, Diana, were full of intellectual pleasantries and happy memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor"), and the U.S. ("I'd a kilt my father if he hadn...