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When the Black Hawks wron the Stanley Cup a year ago, a lion's share of the credit went to their spry, handsome, chattering little goaltender, Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, considered one of the ablest in the history of the game. Two months after the final game last year, Gardiner died of a brain tumor. Whether the Black Hawks win again will depend on many things but most of all upon the man who took his place...
...where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest U. S. swimming coach when he was chosen to train the 1928 U. S. Olympic team. In 1932, functioning in the same capacity, he was libeled by Cartoonist Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley who magnified the fact that Kiphuth was never on a swimming team into the statement that...
...land (TIME, Oct. 22), broke the news that he was going to work for William Randolph Hearst as managing editor of the gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror. To practically all of the Herald Tribune's staff it was a disruptive shock. Stanley Walker had built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker's decision to quit. He had never been able...
That he could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
Chief Executioner. England's University of Birmingham conducts the ablest and most consistently pursued research study of the Soviet Union. In its latest report on the Second Five-Year Plan occurs this quiet, profoundly significant comment: "The legal and administrative compulsion to economic activity under penalty of capital and other punishment is so closely associated with the Soviet system of planning that a study of the U. S. S. R. economy at the present time should actually begin with an explanation of the criminal code. . . . The unusual duties which devolve nowadays on the Soviet public prosecutor may be judged from...