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...seesawed until the West Virginia primary, where the Kennedys spent a fortune to overcome the opposition to the candidate's Roman Catholicism. Humphrey's loss finished him off in the campaign. "I feel like an independent merchant competing against a chain store," he said. Always a good loser and fast rebounder, he served as a loyal, effective Senate whip during the Kennedy Administration. It seemed to be the ideal post for his talents and the culmination of his career...
Billie Jean King on the crowds at a tennis match: "They identify with the loser, which I don't like. It shows that the public has no self-respect. Sometimes I want to grab the mike and say, 'Heeey, no self-respect tonight, folks...
...record shows, for example, that in his 19 years as a pro fessional baseball player, Infielder Ernie Banks played in 2,528 games, had 9,421 official times at bat and logged 2,583 hits for a lifetime batting average of .274. The same volume also records a loser who had but one time at bat in the majors - and struck out. His name: Walter Emmons Alston...
...biggest loser by far was Whitlam, 61, the burly, blunt-spoken lawyer who in 1972 engineered Labor's first victory in 23 years and as Prime Minister managed to install many of the fixtures of welfare-state-ism in Australia, notably its first national health service. As soon as Labor's massive defeat became obvious, Whitlam announced that he would step down as party leader, thus leaving his former treasurer, Bill Hayden, 44, as his most likely successor. By contrast, the results were a minor victory for the Democrats' Don Chipp, 52, a Liberal renegade whose centrist...
...Crimson could least afford it, came disappointment number two. Iim Corcoran (158 lbs.) is having trouble with his defense. "He left it in Cambridge," Lee explained. "The guy from Springfield was getting takedowns from out of left field." The final takedown, at the buzzer, left Corcoran a 7-6 loser...