Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CINCINNATI, Jan. 4--Boston's highflown Celtics had to beat off successive threats Sunday to clinch an 111-108 victory over Cincinnati's Royals in the dying seconds of an afternoon National Basketball Association game...
...Boston-bred Tammy came out at the Brookline (Mass.) Country Club. "All those other debs look exactly alike," says she. "And all of them knit." It seems a shame to Tammy that people can no longer live like F. Scott Fitzgerald's flappers, bang, bang, bang, without worrying how it will all come out." The trouble is, she complains, that "people are so wriggly about things. I don't say I was naughty, but I've been in swimming pools that didn't have any water in them...
There are those who consider the current Montreal team the greatest ever in hockey, superior to the Boston Bruins of the '30s or the Detroit Red Wings, who won seven straight championships in the late '40s and early '50s. Last week Les Canadiens won three straight to pull far ahead of the second-place Red Wings...
...Rocket turns into a ferociously truculent competitor once he takes stick in hand. In his long career, he has been fined a total of $2,500, an all-time record. In one celebrated incident three years ago, Richard attacked an official who was interfering with his assault on a Boston player. League President Clarence Campbell suspended him, thus banishing him from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal fans retaliated by attacking Campbell when he showed up to watch the next game, then surged out into downtown streets, breaking store windows and thumping bystanders to show their displeasure. Maurice insists...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in wifely charge of the education of Henry Adams...