Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lemelin had won the junior ski-jumping championship of Quebec and had started to become a promising local boxer. While practicing for the Canadian skiing championships, however, he fell and broke his left ankle. A resulting infection helped keep him in the hospital eleven months...
...Hungary's one-handed Marksman Kar-bly Takacs, who helped his country take third place in the Olympics by winning the silhouette (pistol) shooting championship for the second time (he won in 1948), with 60 hits, for a score...
...recent Olympics, an unofficial national team championship has been decided by crediting a gold medal with ten points, second through sixth places with 5-4-3-2-1 points. This year the Russians, shorter than the U.S. on gold medals, varied the tally method by awarding only seven points for a first place...
From Johannesburg. South Africa, Arnold Abrams sends in his own estimate of the value of reading TIME. Reader Abrams wrote me recently: "A friend and I broke the bank at [a] giveaway show in Johannesburg. We won ?205, about $615. The question was: Who won the European figure-skating championship for women? I said Jeannette Altwegg-which was right! ... I would not have known if it were not for my reading TIME from cover to cover every week...
Until the qualifying rounds began, only Ashenfelter himself would have bet much on his chances. A former Penn State distance man, and an ex-Air Force lieutenant, he had won the National Amateur Athletic Association's 10,000-meter championship in 1950, the 3,000-meter steeplechase title the next year. But he had run the steeplechase only eight times in all before going to Helsinki. And there he was up against the world's toughest competition: Russia's Vladimir Kazantsev, the Soviet Union's best bet for a gold medal in men's track...