Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...
...itching palm of his hand; of a heart attack; in Miami. Born on Manhattan's lower West Side, shrewd, deadpan Mike Jacobs opened his first ticket agency in a Broadway hotel, moved into boxing by raising $200,000 to help Promoter Tex Rickard stage the Dempsey-Carpentier championship fight in Jersey City in 1921 (the first million-dollar gate). In the '30s he parlayed his exclusive contract with Joe Louis into a 50% chunk of Madison Square Garden's boxing profits, the say-so at every other major arena around New York, thereafter control of almost every...
Captain Johnny Lee, skipping a chance for his third NEAAU title at 125.5, won the championship at 136 pounds. Freshman Captain Dick Hook also turned in as impressive performance, copping the gold medal at 157. The other winners for the Crimson were Chick Chandler at 167 and George Bates...
...yard freestyle, Hedberg gained the New England Senior A.A.U. Championship tittle and tied a record. His winning time of 52.3 seconds ties a New England A.A.U. record held jointly by Yale's brilliant sophomore freestyler, Kerry Donovan, Sandler took third in the event, Rapperport fourth, and junior Bill Travis finished fifth...
Sandler, Travis, and again Hedberg will swim for the Crimson in the 100-yard freestyle event. The new England championship is on the line in this event...