Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. He even did a five-night version of Gone With the Wind...
James J. Jeffries, 70, turn-of-the-century heavyweight champ, recovered from a stroke in a Burbank, Calif, hospital, smoked cigars...
...sweepers had the week off while the Big 20 played in an invitation tourney at Miami. Some of them, sadder & wiser, have gone home. Others, looking at thinning wallets decided to stay and try out just one more tournament, at Jacksonville this week. Among them: onetime Tennis Champ Ellsworth Vines, who gave up tennis competition in 1940, took up golf, which he said was more challenging and less monotonous. His low-70 golf puts him on the outer fringes of the Big 20. A year ago he set aside $15,000 to make himself a pro champ. Said he last...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
...timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead of his chief rival, ex-Marine Jim Bickford, the prewar champ...