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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manager Ross sold ailing veteran Goalie Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson to Detroit (TIME, Dec. 12) and put Rookie Brimsek in the nets, Boston fans raised the Garden roof. But Eddie Shore, who had been an early holdout, came to work, gave Rookie Crawford many a pointer, all season gave Rookie Brimsek the stoutest defense any goalie ever got. Upshot of that was that Brimsek was this season's No. 1 goalie. Art Ross's other prize performer was 22-year-old Roy Conacher, brother of famed Pucksters Charley and Lionel. Throughout the season Roy has pounded home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mightiest Bruin | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...rich Oklahoma City utilitarian named Hubert Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fireless Firebrand | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week the new chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fewer Weasels | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Clark Gable, 38, all-round cinema heman; by his second wife, Maria ("Rhea") Langham Gable, 48, Texas oil heiress; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: desertion. Said Cinemactress Carole Lombard, whose friendship with Gable was publicized in a fan-magazine article on "Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives" (TIME, Dec. 19): "When he gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will sneak away and have the ceremony performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Killer; TIME, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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