Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...
Leaving the chamber in resounding applause, the President paused to shake hands with two Congressmen in wheel chairs, Missouri's John J. Cochran and Ohio's Robert Grosser. To friends he said: "Now that I've broken the ice, I think I'll come back...
...guess there is, Mr. Tree, but I am sort of green, and Mr. Cochran told me to call him directly...
...speak to Mr. Cochran, please? This is Del Solar, from TIME...
...Cochran is out of the office at the present time, Mr. de la Siella, but can I help...