Word: champs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else had found Floyd's hideaway. Rummaging around, he found a pilfered wallet left behind by a pickpocket. Clambering down from the unlit alcove, the champ brushed off the soot and sighed. "Now I can get it off my mind...
...than $35,000 into his prodigy son's gol--for clubs, clothes, transportation, hotels, caddy fees, etc. "It's the most wonderful money I ever spent," says Charles Nicklaus. "I figure it's like living my life all over again. I always wanted to be a champ." By the time he was 14. Jack already was a local hero in Columbus. MOVE OVER SNEAD-MAKE ROOM FOR JACKIE, read a headline in the Columbus Citizen in 1954. Sportswriters compared Jack to Bobby Jone-who had captured the Georgia Amateur at 14, gone on to the third round...
...familiar Sears, Roebuck catalogue in quest of ginghams and gadgets is in for a surprise. Its pages will soon blossom with art, abstract and otherwise. Hired to gather original paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures in the U.S. and abroad was Cinemactor Vincent Price, 51, epicure, art collector and ex-champ (in the art category) of TV's $64,000 Challenge. Yaleman ('33) Price will shop for items priced mostly under $100. and Sears will feature them in its 1,500-page catalogue. The venture, conceded one Searsman, is "highly exploratory...
...painting is the work of our crash-cover champ, Artist Boris Chaliapin. He needed some swirling ticker tape to reproduce in the background, and so we sent downstairs to the Merrill Lynch office in our building for a few strands of cellulose acetate. The reply we got was typical of the impact of the week's news: "You can have all of it," said Broker Nicholas Bazarov...
Ebony Magazine's list of the 100 wealthiest U.S. Negroes (assets of at least $250,000 apiece) was chockablock with dentists, morticians and real estate moguls, but there was only a handful of familiar names-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Comedian Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once...