Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winner Hawks, 26, who used to model for fun and now for fun hunts game with sportsmen like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway (see col. 3), thought it was "awfully nice" to get picked, offered a partial explanation of her success: "I have a tall, skinny frame that clothes look well on." She wears no hats. She's a "great believer in simplicity in clothes," she said, and figured that in '46 she spent about one-fourth as much on her wardrobe as any of the other best-dressed-at the most, $10,000 (not counting furs...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...
...last week and swung like a Normandy windmill. George Abrams, one of the top four U.S. middleweights, looked surprised and swung back. For the next ten rounds they fought it out. Then they waited vacant-eyed and with blood trickling down their faces while the ballots were collected. The winner, to no one's surprise but Abrams', was Frenchman Marcel Cerdan...
Under discussion was the classification of major and minor sports and the point awards for each. Tentatively, the winner of the first five sports listed will receive five points, others three, with the status of squash, swimming, and touch football in doubt...
Following the success of the Yard football team, a new basketball league, comprising six Yard quintets, is being organized under the supervision of Adolph Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics. The teams will play a round-robin schedule with the winner playing the champion of the House League for the intramural championship...