Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Hawkins came up from last place in the finals of the 220-yard butterfly at the National A. A. U. swimming meet at Yale on April 2, shot by four of the men ahead of him, but could not overtake Eulalio Rios, Pan American Games champion, who set a world record to win. One of the men Hawkins passed was Phil Drake of North Carolina, who had beaten the Crimson junior over the 200-yard distance...
...rough-and-ready slugger who insists that all he does is "throw punches until something gives," Champion Peele is more of a stylist than he likes to admit. Bobbing, weaving, ducking, he is an elusive target; he knows how to fight his way out of trouble with furious flurries. "He has every punch in the book." says his admiring coach, J. T. Owen. "And he has that something extra-that Dempsey instinct. He wants...
Last week more than 3,000 people of all races, headed by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, attended Walter White's funeral in Harlem, and President Eisenhower mourned a "vigorous champion of justice and equality for all our citizens." A Louisville newspaper eulogized him; the Missouri House passed a resolution of sympathy. As Walter White died, his old enemy Jim Crow was dying...
...Philco Playhouse scored a near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Rory Calhoun in Champion...