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...tough National Hockey League, where anything short of outright mayhem is considered a fair way to stop a man from scoring, Andy Bathgate has earned his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. He has the face of a Western movie hero who has just lost a saloon brawl. His upper teeth are the best that money can buy; he deposits them carefully in a paper cup before he goes out to play. "In Canada," he says, "you're not a hockey player until you've lost some teeth." In the rugged give-and-take of bigtime...
...other releases, on Tradition and Riverside, which are not too hard to come by, although deleted from the catalogues. Folk-Lyric records Dominic Behan, the younger brother of the playwright-autobiographer, in a splattering of Irish songs ranging from high-toned love ballads to songs-to-incite-a-pub-brawl-by. If you have the Gaelic, Folkways records "Songs of Aran"--but beware; these are field recordings. Field recording involves finding the oldest citizen of the remotest place, assuring oneself that he remembers only one or two verses, and then recording him in a high wind. The flavor is most...
From Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to Broadway in Los Angeles, the men who market the nation's goods were preparing for a knee-and-gouge brawl. On one side stood the avid discount sellers, who in the past six years have cornered nearly one-third of the nation's $14 billion-a-year department store trade; on the other were the old-line, fixed-price retailers. Hoping to juice up the sluggish trend in retail sales, each side is slashing into the other's territory as rarely before. In the process, the distinction between a discount house...
...City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
...even more than his winning pleased them. "He's one of those typically fresh New York kids who aggravate you out of sheer contrariness," ex-General Manager George Weiss once said. In 1957 he was fined $1,000 when he and five teammates got into a post-midnight brawl at the Copacabana while celebrating ex-Yankee infielder Billy Martin's 29th birthday...