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...Auerbach has this thing about cigars. He never smokes on the bench until his Boston Celtics have the game all wrapped up. Once they do, though, he crams an enormous stogie into his mouth and settles contentedly back wreathed in smiles and smoke. In 20 years-16 of them with the Celtics-Red has won 1,036 games, and performed the ritual countless times. Last week, on the night of his retirement, he lit up one last smoke...
...lead after the first four minutes, ran the score to 76-60 by the third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...
After that the Crimson stickmen would have been just as effective sitting on the bench for the rest of the second quarter. Princeton broke the game wide open with four more tallies, while Harvard failed to score...
...left eight Justices who had split 4 to 4 in that case. His successor, Justice Fortas, made eloquently clear during the arguments that he views the court's "vexatious, tormented" decision no differently than he did when he was on the other side of the bench winning the right to counsel for Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon. Apparently, much like Goldberg, he sees the cases in terms of the Magna Carta-in terms of human liberty rather than "just convicting people." While that seemed to leave the Justices split about as before, court watchers also noted that Justice William...
...lineup behind him will probably be the same as always, with one possible exception. In center field, George Neville is hitting only .224, and on the bench is sophomore Carter Lord. If Neville doesn't start to hit, it's a good bet that Coach Norm Shepard will replace him with the rangy Lord, who is strong, fast, and has hit some awesome fly balls in a couple of recent pinch hitting assignments. If Lord can start finding the alleys with his hits instead of the left fielder's glove, he could give the Crimson some sorely-needed extra-base...