Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jaguar entered by Briggs Cunningham, who owned last year's winning Osca, 2) a 2,999-cc. Ferrari to be driven by Italy's aging (48) Piero Taruffi and America's Harry Schell and 3) a 2,660-cc. Austin-Healey, handled by British Champion Stirling Moss and Co-Driver Lance Macklin...
...characteristic : total recall. They can remember every minute of every fight-the amateur bouts when the gold medal or the brass watch was hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details of his childhood street scraps, the first wild rounds of his private bout with the world...
...Knights of Columbus Athletic Meet in Madison Square Garden, Defending Champion Mai Whitfield was nosed out by Villanova Alumnus Joe Gaffney in the 600-yd. run, and another ex-titleholder proved a disappointment even while winning. Miler Wes Santee lazed home in 4:10.4, one of the slowest times of the winter season...
...this version, Betty Grable is a musicomedy star whose songwriter husband (Jack Lemmon) is reported dead in Korea. After a suitable period of mourning, she marries her husband's partner (Gower Champion). So, of course, Lemmon turns up alive, and the fun begins. Gower glowers, Lemmon sours, and Grable plays the queen in a giddy double checkmate. The best scenes in the picture are those in which the two men dance attendance on their mutual wife to some pretty, witty choreography by Jack Cole. All the dances, in fact, have just the right sort of scratchpad casualness...
Captain Ken Culbert led the varsity scoring, finishing third at 177. Culbert, who placed fourth last year, got falls in preliminary quarter-final bouts before he eventual champion Solomon, of Pittsburgh, overpowered...