Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wood and Pettengill began placing calls, rounding up the anti-Administration members. Some sincere isolationists refused to attend. Among the Senators who came were balding, sobersided Robert Taft of Ohio, red-faced Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. (Wheeler was out of town, speechmaking...
Billy Conn had outboxed the champ for 12 rounds last spring. Nova spent three years in college (at California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 37, onetime world's light-heavyweight prizefight champ, now proprietor of a Hollywood nightclub, is making a picture of undergraduate life called Harvard, Here I Come. His wife, according to United Pressman Frederick Othman, is coaching him in collegiate ways. Says...
...labor movement, continued the former welterweight boxing champ--now proprietor of a Harlem night club and greatest negro actor--, will undoubtedly have great effect in breaking down racial discrimination; but education is the best and most lasting means...