Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey game with the fifth-place New York Rangers last week, Bernard ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion, famed young right wing of the league-leading Montreal Canadiens, seemed half asleep most of the time. But in the first period he fed an assist to the Canadiens' Bert Olmstead (one point for Geoffrion) and in the third period he scored a goal himself, a blazing 30-footer (another point). This brought his total points this year to 35 and his goals to 21-high for the league. Boom-Boom's 21st goal meant cash to him. His base pay is about...
Says the Canadiens' press book of Boom-Boom: "His biggest failing seems to be his inability to play consistently, probably due to his fiery nature and temperament." Last season fiery-natured Geoffrion got into a stick-swinging brawl with the Rangers' Ron Murphy. The Canadiens say Murphy swung first but missed, then Geoffrion naturally retaliated-and broke Murphy's jaw. Geoffrion was fined and forbidden to play the Rangers for the rest of the season...
...Lately, Boom-Boom seems to have kept his temper in check. His fans note that he has acquired some of the social graces, such as saying "Pardon me" when he belches and making polite small talk while signing autographs. He smokes big cigars, wears sharp clothes, owns two apartment houses. Geoffrion is also a family man (married to Marlene Morenz, figure-skating daughter of a hockey immortal, the late Howie Morenz...
...Canadiens have not won an N.H.L. championship since 1947, but this year they devoutly expect to beat both the formidable Detroit Red Wings and the skilled but conservative Toronto Maple Leafs in the league standings and in the Stanley Cup (a sort of World Series of hockey). Boom-Boom himself is confident, and when victory is in sight, as he puts it eloquently, "Oh boy, then we hit it up. We eat good, we see a show, we have a big time. It's a great life. I love hockey...
...uranium boom on the Colorado Plateau has spawned another crop of big rich, led by Vernon Pick, who sold his uranium mine to Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. for $9,000,000 (75% of which Pick kept under capital gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares...