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Bill Collins of the first forward line, Dick Fischer and Gord Marlow of the second, and Bill Deford of the third scored two goals apiece. Other Crimson tallies came from the sticks of Dick Birch, Paul Kelley, and Dick McLaughlin...
Third period scoring began with left wing Fischer placing one on an assist from Maurice Balboni. In the same period William DeFord drove one in on a pass from David Birch, bringing the score to 5-0. The final goal of the game was made by first line center Higginbottom, assisted by John Filoon...
...winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that has been tenderly overgrown by young birch and honeysuckle...
Driving through birch woods, through forests of fir, bridging huge rivers, crossing the deep, black-soil plains of the Ukraine, filtrating through the great marshlands, fighting, always fighting, in winter blizzard or in blistering summer heat, the Red army recaptured half a million square miles of territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close...
...thrilling, and no more pointed than a jelly omelet. Only an oömancer could tell how it all began, or when-or why. Egg rolling is probably related to an old Central European custom called by the Germans Schmeckostern, or Easter smacks. The men beat the women with birch boughs on Easter Monday and the women beat the men with birch boughs on Easter Tuesday. (But in Durham, England, the men used to take off the women's shoes on Easter Monday and the women took off the men's shoes on Easter Tuesday.) In Bohemia...