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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...
...approved by Congress in 1948, named the United States. Funds for it were appropriated by the House on April 13, 1949. But ten days later, economy-minded Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled the order for the supercarrier, touching off the famed "revolt of the admirals" and the public brawl between the Navy and the Air Force. In 1951, when the Korean war stepped up military expenditures, the Navy again got funds for a supercarrier...
...Freshman Smoker, traditionally a sex and beer brawl, will be toned down this year...
...last week was also one of two Communist Deputies suspended from the Chamber for seven days for his part in a recent brawl in the Chamber. Moscatelli had used a microphone to club one of his fellow Deputies...
Died. George McManus, 70, creator and chronicler (in the comic strip Bringing Up Father) of the nation's most enduring (over 41 years) marital brawl; of hepatitis; in Santa Monica, Calif. McManus created the redhaired, button-nosed Jiggs and his strident, crockery-slinging wife Maggie in 1912. The pair have battled in 27 different languages across the pages of some 750 newspapers. The strip's gentle spoofing of America's rags-to-riches-to-high society dream was translated into movies and radio shows, made a millionaire of Cartoonist McManus, who was regarded by his cronies...