Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buffalo, FBI-man Fred Wilt, improving with age (32), won his third National A.A.U. 10,000-meter senior cross-country championship. Running over a slushy, snow-softened course, Wilt ran the distance...
...thousands of bright-cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history...
...latest on preparations for the Bermuda Big Three meeting and on the Russian offer to hold a Big Four foreign ministers' meeting. Then on the golf course with son John and daughter-in-law Barbara, Ike took a father's satisfaction in successfully defending his family golf championship. Week's end found Mamie, John, Barbara and the children watching the Army-Navy football game on TV. Ike was on the golf course when word came that West Point had won a famous victory (see SPORT). At vacation's end the Columbine took the President back...
...Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field...
...from triumph to triumph on the nation's gridirons until he fractures his skull while playing for the professional Chicago Rockets. After a long convalescence and some determined hard work, Hirsch makes it back to the gridiron in time to help the Los Angeles Rams win the 1951 championship. Most of the film's football action is supplied by exciting newsreel clips of Hirsch running wild against various Big Ten and pro teams. But off the playing field things slow down to a walk. Newcomer Joan Vohs plays the thankless role of sweetheart and wife, while Veteran Lloyd...