Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNITED NATIONS HANDICAP (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The $100,000 race for three-year-olds broadcast live from Atlantic City. Among the entries will be minion-dollar winner Buckpasser...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts George Burns, Sid Caesar, the Mamas and the Papas, and Soprano Jane Marsh, winner of the recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...under both of Karl's eyes; with the blood dripping down his chest, the German fought on, stinging Cassius with solid lefts to the head. Try as he might, the champion could not put Mildenberger away; the referee stopped the fight in the twelfth and declared Cassius the winner by a technical knockout. Heaving a big sigh of relief, richer by $200,000, Champion Clay began preparing for yet another title defense, this time against Houston's Cleveland Williams-whom Sonny Liston once described as "the toughest man I ever fought...
Forty-seven is a little late in life for a man to change his whole philosophy. But give Ralph Houk credit for trying. "Winning is all that counts," he used to say. Houk was a winner then. Now that he's a loser, he's learning to act like one. Alibis: "Injuries have practically killed us." Complaints: "The umpire really blew that one." Pleas for sympathy: "We're going through a period of unexpected events." Promises, promises, promises: "We have some outstanding prospects...
...totality of the Yankee collapse seems to baffle Houk as much as anybody. "I've never been with a losing club before, either as a manager or a player," he mutters. Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, a 20-game winner last year, is a 17-game loser this season. Leftfielder Tom Tresh, a .279 hitter in 1965, is batting .238. The team as a whole is batting .237. They have lost 33 games by a margin of one run, and they have been unable even to beat their old patsies, the Washington Senators and the California Angels...