Word: abell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loyal Red Wing fans had waited all year for the moment, and the 13,000 or so of them in Detroit's Olympia Stadium sent up a great roar. The roar subsided to happy bedlam as Red Wing Team Captain Sid Abel accepted the trophy cup in center ice. Then the Detroit crowd struck up a chant: "We want Howe...
...Sidelines. Howe had been one of the reasons for Red Wing success all year. The trio of Howe, veteran Center Sid Abel and Wingman Ted Lindsay had scored more points (215) than any other three men in National League hockey this season. The question was: How could Detroit win the Stanley Cup with one of the trio on the sidelines...
Veteran Joe Carveth, 32, was hauled into the regular lineup, and with Lindsay and Abel playing in their usual style, the Red Wings came from behind to beat Toronto in their half of the cup semifinals, four games to three. Meanwhile the New York Rangers had crushed Montreal, four games...
...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...
...investigation of the Eder case uncovered more guilt than Abel's and Fran-key's. Their battalion, the 796th Military Police, has 600 men. More than 100 knew about the kidnaping; 20 of them had been approached by those who wanted Eder kidnaped. None reported the proposition or the kidnaping to U.S. authorities. The 796th has many black-marketeers, some, called the "three-to-two boys," who lend money on a basis of $300 returned for every $200 advanced. Three-quarters of the MPs in the battalion are under 21, and most of them have been subject...