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...hockey game with the fifth-place New York Rangers last week, Bernard ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion, famed young right wing of the league-leading Montreal Canadiens, seemed half asleep most of the time. But in the first period he fed an assist to the Canadiens' Bert Olmstead (one point for Geoffrion) and in the third period he scored a goal himself, a blazing 30-footer (another point). This brought his total points this year to 35 and his goals to 21-high for the league. Boom-Boom's 21st goal meant cash to him. His base pay is about...
...whole day Churchill moved amid cheers, gifts and high praise. He called on the Queen (who opened Parliament, then departed to leave the stage to her first minister), was toasted in champagne and received two pairs of antique silver coasters. That night he fell asleep to the singing of "For he's a Jolly Good Fellow" from the crowds who had clustered all day outside 10 Downing Street...
Zola denied there was any advantage in studying in bed and added that the increased time for study was counteracted by the increased difficulty of concentrating. "Besides," he added, "most courses, taken on the horizontal, tend to make me fall asleep...
ABOVE the entrance to the Sterling Law Buildings at Yale, there are two panels of bas relief. One shows a medieval classroom with the professor asleep; the other pictures an ancient courtroom with the judge asleep...
...letters arrive, to be opened and acknowledged by a staff of 40 healthful helpers. By the mysterious process of attunement, healing begins at the moment when Edwards or one of his assistants reads the letter. "In absent healing, we touch most of those people when they are asleep," Edwards explains. "We help children who are too young to have faith...