Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington (not without presidential hopes himself), Rhode Island Governor Dennis Roberts, Pittsburgh Mayor and Democratic Leader David Lawrence. After dinner at Manhattan's "21," De Sapio hustled all his guests off to ringside seats (top price, $40) at the Marciano-Moore heavyweight championship fight in Yankee Stadium...
This week, when Casey sends his team out after his sixth world championship, he knows it will not be easy. "Those fellas," says he, "they want to beat us. They never have. But I don't think their pitching is any better than ours. We beat their big fella [Don Newcombe] twice in the 1949 series. The first game it was 1-0 and Tommy Henrich hits one out of the park in the ninth inning. But that's what you need and I had DiMaggio and Keller and where do you find outfielders like that...
...slopped field at College Park, Md., miserable weather and a few minutes of exceptionally fumble-fingered play by U.C.L.A.'s highly touted football team got the University of Maryland back in the running for the national championship. Behind their big line, Maryland's backs ran up a slim 7-0 lead in the third quarter, hung on to it to shut out the Bruins for the first time in 40 games...
Three Crimson skippers--Commodore A. C. Langworthy, Fred Hoppin, and Tommy Townsend--will seek their fifth straight Big Three Championship from Princeton and Yale in a nine boat race. Home waters and greater familiarity with the Tech dingies give the local sailors the edge...
This climax to his apocryphally "starry" Harvard swimming career came just after he had self-righteously refuted all doubts as to his amateur status. During the previous summer of 1947, a gentleman with somewhat the same name as "Charles Grover" won the professional long distance endurance swimming championship at Lake George. But when his coaches queried him on the subject, Grover disclaimed the similarity. The similarity later proved to be a case of identity...