Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Heywood Broun was fond of calling Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler "light-heavyweight champion of the upperdog." Even after Broun died, terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler did not forgive him, or his close circle of newspaper friends. Last week the ancient feud erupted in the trial of a $500,000 libel suit. Defendant: Columnist Pegler and Hearst corporations, which syndicate and publish his column. Plaintiff: Broun's old friend, onetime War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, who five years ago invited Pegler's wrath by reviewing a biography of Broun for the New York Herald Tribune. Pegler took part...
Carnochan, a graduate of St. Paul's, received a magna cum laude degree here. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is presently studying at New College, Oxford. Rouner went to Choate. While an undergraduate here, he rowed on the varsity heavyweight crew. He has just finished his first season as coach of all Crimson 155-pound crews...
Oklahomans, who tend toward he-men as their politicians, have watched with interest as 138-lb. Willie Murray, a onetime concert pianist, grew to be a heavyweight in state politics. A year younger than the State of Oklahoma (which admits to 46), she met Johnston Murray at a Democratic state convention, has been a close political adviser ever since...
...45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made a splash as a heavyweight recently (TIME, April 12), was finally stopped by a competent light-heavyweight named Jimmy Slade, who outboxed and outfoxed Jackson in a ten-round decision...
...West Germany, onetime (1930-32) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Max Schmeling heard that Franz Diener, the man he beat for the German boxing crown in 1928, had landed in a Soviet-zone jail. Diener's crime: while chief butcher in an East German sausage factory, he got caught passing out state-owned Bratwurst to hungry friends. Schmeling wrote to East Germany's Puppet President Wilhelm Pieck, got Diener pardoned by the Russians. Last week, after refusing a job as East Germany's commissar of boxing, Franz Diener fled to West Berlin and gratefully awaited a reunion with...