Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport pages were dripping with the evils of commercialism. Last week, Middleweight Rocky Graziano, whose conversation usually ranges from "Yeah" to "Nunhh," was quoted at length "in his own words" about being offered a $100,000 bribe. The New York State Athletic Commission debated whether to cancel his championship fight with Tony Zale. Three more big-league football-betting bookies were indicted...
...Birney Crum is the most esteemed of Allentown's 96,904 citizens. When his boys copped the Pennsylvania state basketball championship two years ago, the city gave him a $1,000 war bond and a watch. His gift for repeating last year...
...football, headlines still went to Alvin Paris, a tinhorn gambler who entertained players with partying chorus girls, and tried to fix the National League's championship game between the Bears and the Giants (TIME, Dec. 23). He was due to be sentenced next week...
TIME WOMAN OF YEAR IDENTIFIED YESTERDAY . . . MRS. CORA D. O'CONNOR, ABOUT 42 . . . CLERK Y.W.C.A., MOTHER OF THREE, INCLUDING LOIS ANN, A CHAMPIONSHIP SPEED SKATER...
...first competition in four years for the Percy S. Straus House All-Around Championship Trophy reaches the half-year mark, Leverett leads the pack with 243 points accrued through a touch football title and second place finish in tackle football. Kirkland and Dunster follow in a close second place battle with 215 and 210 points respectively, according to figures compiled by Intramural Director Adolph W. Samborski...