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...shot first period blitz produced its first red light 10 seconds into the first RPI power play, when Adam Oates lifted a slapshot rebound into the net. Less than a minute later, at the 12:56 mark, center Trini Itturalde scored on a backhander...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: The Lost Weekend: Icemen Tie, Lose | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

During the war, Orwell and his wife lived in London. Cyril Connolly recalled: "He felt enormously at home in the Blitz, among the bombs, the bravery, the rubble, the shortages, the homeless, the signs of rising revolutionary temper." By then Orwell had become something of a celebrated eccentric, that gaunt Etonian who dressed like a working man (corduroy trousers, dark shirt, size-twelve boots), rolled his cigarettes from a pouch of acrid shag and poured his tea into a saucer before drinking it (there he goes, that Socialist who says such terrible things about Mr. Stalin). Eric Blair had totally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Year Is Almost Here | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...aristocracy, the buried dynastic, monarchical urge. "Jack is the first Irish Brahmin," said Paul Dever, a former Massachusetts Governor. He had both Harvard and Honey Fitz in him. He was an intellectual who could devastate any woman in the room and devour Melbourne in a speed reader's blitz and curse like the sailor that he also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.F.K. After 20 years, the question: How good a President? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...chilled and frozen orange juice. "There's a year of sunshine in every sip," goes the slogan for the ads that blossomed on TV and in newspapers. The commercials portray a citrus grower who says, "That is one sunshiny, sweet-tastin' orange juice." Cost of the national blitz: an estimated $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Turning on the Juice | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...world's largest city last week, toward the middle of the 20th Century after Christ, five years after the Great Blitz, an eight-year-old boy was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said London's child: "Alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport 1945: Branch Breaks the Ice, Hires Jackie Robinson As Shortstop | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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