Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...buddy! Fall down!" called a sportsman from the row behind, as Lucius tried to determine exactly where it was he belonged. Understanding the situation at once, Lucius steadied himself and determined to stick it out. He turned to the drinker seated in front...
Tanned, mustachioed Charlie Chaprales, familiar Harvard Square restauranteur-sportsman, is shown here with the seven foot, 94-pound Blue Marlin he recently landed off the Florida Keys, and his brother John (front...
...heyday of the International Boxing Club's strangle hold on U.S. boxing, Millionaire Sportsman James Dougan Norris ran the show in public, and a slim, grey-haired man named Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo ran a lot of it in private. Breaking up the Norris monopoly was relatively easy for the Justice Department. The underworld dominance of Frankie Carbo was something else again. Few figures in the fight game admitted knowing Carbo or dealing with him in any way. But last July the man known as "Mr. Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking...
Shortly after Sir Malcolm Campbell died in 1948, his son Donald learned that a U.S. sportsman was preparing an assault on Sir Malcolm's world water-speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. "By God, they won't have that record," vowed Donald, "not without a fight they won't have...