Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...
...children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other fighter who preferred to do his scrapping with his fists, he beat it out to France again when the nationalist rebellion closed North...
Died. James Edwin (Ted) Meredith, 65, fleet-footed oldtime track champion who won fame at the age of 20 by setting a world record for the 800-meter run at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, later set the 440-and 880-yd. records, also served as an income-tax-delinquent hunter; after long illness; in Camden...
...Commandments seemed certain of being the top money movie of all time. Already seen by almost 22 million moviegoers, the 3-hr. 39-min. spectacle has grossed more than $29 million in only 917 theaters (a top hit can easily run in 15,000). The big money champion up to now, Gone With the Wind ($33.5 million since 1939), will soon be outdistanced. After some 40 years of moviemaking, DeMille's skilled old hand once again blends, to the public's obvious liking, an unbeatable mixture of color, bigness, heroics, sex and oldtime religion...
...fight for the winner's prize will probably be confined to the midwestern schools, which have dominated this meet in recent years. Michigan State is the defending champion. Best hope for a high finish among the Ivy League teams is Cornell, winner of the Heptagonals, ten days...