Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia. So Althea went out to the West Side Tennis Club in the summer of 1950 and made history by almost upsetting Louise Brough. She went home a loser, and spent the next few summers as an unspectacular but familiar figure at assorted tournaments around the U.S. and Europe. In 1953 she graduated from Florida A. & M. and got a job teaching health and physical education at Lincoln University (then restricted to Negroes) in Jefferson City, Mo. She coached the men's tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year...
...Loser for the League. First and last, "Fighting Jimmy" Cox was a newspaperman. At 28, he was already an influential publisher who took pride in the fact that his Dayton Daily News had racked up more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
...their first World Series-and then, a year later, they learned that the Chicago White Sox, whom they had beaten, had thrown the series for gamblers. So the Redlegs' 1919 championship went into the record books as the "Black Sox" scandal. No one won; baseball was the loser...
Word came from the Antarctic that the 18 U.S. explorers hibernating at the South Pole have averaged a weight loss of 15 Ibs. per man. Biggest loser: Paul A. Siple (TIME, Dec. 31), scientific boss of the polar party, down to 217 Ibs. from his normal 250. All of the pole sitters are in good health and spirits despite such inconveniences as a recent temperature of 100.4° below zero-a record...
...underrated Navy nine pounded out seventeen hits last Friday to trounce the varsity baseball team 12 to 6. The men from Annapolis tried hard to give the game away as all but one of the loser's runs were unearned, but three Crimson pitchers were even more indulgent...