Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Softball: Last year's strong finishers Eliot and Dudley are toss-ups for the top spot, with last year's championship playoff pair, Leverett and Dunster, also expected in the first division...
...College & Daniel Webster Sir: We at Dartmouth are very proud of Ralph Miller for winning the North American downhill ski championship (TIME, March 16), but we are also quite proud of another Dartmouth man, one Daniel Webster, who fought one of the greatest legal battles in U.S. history to keep us Dartmouth College and prevent us from becoming Dartmouth University, as you so carelessly called us . . . PIERRE B. BALLIETT '56 Dartmouth College Hanover...
...other way: the bigger they are, the harder they hit. By far the biggest of the women golfers these days is a roly-poly (5 ft. 3 in., 222 Ibs.) Hawaiian named Mrs. Jacqueline ("Jackie") Pung, who celebrated a victory in last year's Women's Amateur championship with a hip-swinging hula that brought frowns of disapproval from the staid U.S.G.A. This year, playing for pro pay, Jackie has restrained her hulas, but her booming 240-yd. tee shots have taken the play-and some of the pay-from such old pros as Babe Zaharias and Patty...
...horse, the other time when she was pushed off a chair. At summer camp, she was forever winning the cup as the best all-around athlete. When she was a freckled, scrawny 13, she put in a solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel Beach (Conn.) from a far shapelier 18-year-old. Said Mary Jane: "They gave the cup to Ros for grit, not form." Learning the raptures of hard work, she plugged away at toe dancing until, after one long session, she could cry dramatically: "Look! My toes are bleeding...
...thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...