Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Green Bay Packers backed into the Western division championship last week; Philadelphia's Eagles, the long-suffering pushover of the pros, at last seemed headed for the Eastern title-after standing off Washington's air-minded Redskins and New York's down-to-earth Giants. These were the four pro teams of the year...
...daybreak, rain drummed on the windowpanes of Washington, D.C. But the city awakened with a stir of excitement, like a college town on the morning the football team comes home with the championship. Franklin Roosevelt, elected to Term IV, was coming back to the White House from Hyde Park. At 7:30 a.m. crowds were standing in the grey morning outside the Union Station. By 8:28, when the President's special train pulled in, there were 30,000 people on the wet plaza before the station, and a third of a million more along the two miles...
Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration...
...Columbus, Ohio, 56,380 watched unbeaten Ohio State and its great halfback, 23-year-old dental student Les Horvath, trip Indiana, 21-to-7, and head toward the Big Ten championship...
...Spokane two months ago, Nelson missed three two-foot putts and thereby lost $3,500 top prize money in the P.G.A. Championship. Next morning on the plane to Chicago he could neither rest nor eat. But just before reaching Chicago he got his grip back, casually mentioned that he would win his next three tournaments. He made good on that 100-to-1 shot-by adding Chicago's rich Tarn O' Shanter tournament (value, $13,462.50), the Nashville Invitation ($2,400) and the Dallas Open ($2,000) to his year's victories...