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...bulwark on defense is Goalie Bill Durnan, practically assured of his fourth straight Vezina Trophy (for the goalie who averages the least goals per game). Last year he blocked all but 104 shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...
...young American favorites showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...
...class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
...FEINBERG has played a good deal of ball for the Crimson this fall, taking over the right guard spot for the injured Drvaric. Quick at sizing up enemy plays and seldom trapped out of position, he is a bulwark on defense...
...Peronist press calls Argentina's Supreme Court the "last bulwark of the oligarchy." Peron has apparently decided to move in on it. Deputy Rodolfo Decker, Peronist bloc leader, last week called on Congress to impeach four of the present justices...