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...even Hockey Stars Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito and their fellow Chicago Blackhawks could cramp the style of Ernie, Bert, Grover, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street regulars (played by Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies skaters) showed up in Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal...
...Chicago Blackhawk Bobby Hull is a perfect example of this changing attitude among athletes. I remember how he scored two goals in a Stanley Cup game against Detroit despite a badly broken nose. Yet when he went to the WHA, he bowed to the reality of financial exigencies. Athletes cannot make mythical tax paymenns. Thus, perhaps, it was only a matter of time before the shattering of the fans' illusion of men playing only because they love the game. Certainly pro players love their jobs, certainly more than the average professional, but they are still workers with wives and families...
...back, what? An aged dory, weathering silver among the four thousand blades of brown grass, each painted separately in egg tempera? In fact, no: a dark, secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into...
...Montreal Canadiens completely overpowered a fading Chicago Blackhawk team, 4-0, yesterday in Chicago to assume a commanding 3-1 lead in the best of seven Stanley Cup finals...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A player's-eye view of ice hockey, with Chicago Blackhawk Stan Mikita, wired for sound and with a camera attached to him, playing an actual game...