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...Allston on Friday night than in many small countries. And there they were, in the second period, with the score knotted at 1, flashing across the ice, thrilling the assembled crowd, putting pucks in the net. First, Dartmouth, on the power play, Parsons, Weatherston, and Apps, in that order, bing-bang-boom. Three stars, two passes, one backdoor cut, and a 2-1 lead before most of the 1,211 or Harvard goalie Brittany Martin could react.Then, on a 5-on-3, the Crimson experts picking apart the undermanned defense. Chu to Cahow at the point, down to Katie Johnston...
...glory days, Hollywood made a few series--Andy Hardy, The Thin Man, the Bob Hope-- Bing Crosby Road comedies, and horror films with the whole Frankenstein family. But these were middling fare. The big-ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between...
...Bing pretty much invented the Christmas music industry. He'd been hosting Christmas specials on radio since 1936. Then in 1942 he introduced Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in the film Holiday Inn. Tapping into the nostalgia that GIs at war felt for their first Christmas away from home (as did another Bing hit, "I'll Be Home for Christmas"), the song stayed at #1 on the hit parade for seven weeks. Reissued each year thereafter, it topped the charts again in 1945 and 1946, and was in the top 15 eight other years. In the mid-'40s Crosby recorded...
...first black artist with his own network TV show, Cole was a jazz pianist whose voice was too lyrical and intimate to be shut up. He put that silky, highly palatized tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
...tolerate) only one Christmas album, this is it. Among the 17 tracks are Bing's "White Christmas," Elvis' "Blue Christmas," Nat's "The Christmas Song," Johnny's "Sleigh Ride," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," Sarah MacLachlan's "Song for a Winter's Night" and, to go out on a note of heartbreak, Judy Garland's original of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." We'll be playing this one forever, if the fates allow...