Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a ball." But Paar's low-toned impudence and highhanded wit often came off engagingly. Reading off late news bulletins, he announced deadpan that Kathryn Murray, the indefatigable hostess of The Arthur Murray Party (TIME, July 22), "will not fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship of the world." He ribaldly admired the way Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face...
Conerly's pinpoint passing and Agajanian's accurate kicking pushed the Giants into a steadily widening lead. Final score: 22-12. For the Giants, it was just as well. They had to win. Not since 1938 had a Giant team won the pro championship, been privileged to play against the college boys...
...collegiate final round of the U.S. Public Links Championship at Hershey, Pa., L.S.U. Sophomore Don Essig, 18, was far too steady for S.M.U.'s Gene Towry, 28, won by an impressive 6 and 5 and earned an automatic invitation to the National Amateur in September...
...Milwaukee Braves who soon signed him up. Aaron went up through the Braves' farm system, in 1954 got his big chance when Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in spring training. Last year, lashing out at any bad pitch that caught his fancy, Aaron won the league batting championship with a .328 average, led both major leagues with 200 hits...
...around the field ("I'm pacing myself"), and some experts think he will ultimately rank among the game's great hitters. Says Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Cincinnati Redlegs, one of the keenest judges of talent in the game (TIME, July 8): "Aaron could win the batting championship for the next five or six years, if he gets to be a well-rounded hitter and learns to hit to right and drag bunt. He's that good...