Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some 40 champions from a bevy of sports were in the crowd of 400 that stood cheering in Los Angeles last week as genial, handsome U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, 23. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year for 1958, got to his feet to accept his award. In shy dignity, Johnson, California Negro who last July in Moscow scored an astounding 8,302 points to win a tense, ten-event duel with Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov, thanked his parents for "making it all possible," added quietly: "I have but one goal in life: to live like...
...twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats...
...YORK--Archie Moore, world light-heavyweight champion, Thursday night received the Edward J. Neil Award as fighter of the year...
Boros, National Open champion in 1952, fired four straight birdies to close out his 18 holes with 35-32 on the Monterey Peninsula Country Club...
Married. Ashley Cooper, 22, Australian tennis player, world's top-ranked amateur, 1958 champion at both Forest Hills and Wimbledon; and Helen Wood, 20, Miss Australia of 1957; two days after Australia lost the Davis Cup to the U.S. (see SPORT); in a wedding mobbed by 5,000 fans; in Brisbane...