Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
Died. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 72, sportsman, patron of art and science, former head of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a heart attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
Last week's procession, which took half an hour to pass the reviewing stand, was a relatively modest tribute to Argentina's strong man. Among the extravagant titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman...
Died. Alexis Thompson, 40, wealthy (an estimated $5,000,000 Inland Steel Co. fortune) sportsman and cafe socialite, former owner of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, onetime Olympic bobsledder; of a heart attack; in Englewood...
...Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual sales in six years, putting Miller among the top ten U.S. beer producers...