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Space does not permit mentioning all the forwards. Sophomore Jim Malonc is especially memorable to the Crimson skaters because he participated in nine goals in a single game against them last year. Backing up these forwards is an all-Olympic defense, while veteran goalle Dick Desmond still maintains his remarkable aplomb in the nets...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...DESMOND New York City

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Creamer. When Johnny Desmond was a sergeant in France, he wowed the G.I.s and Parisian girls with his big baritone, for $72 a month (TIME, March 12, 1945). The day after he turned in his uniform, in November 1945, Johnny started singing on NBC's Teentimers show for $500 a week. Now he makes $75,000 a year. Although many of his ex-G.I. fans are still loyal to "The Creamer" (he has a "creamy" voice), Johnny has not yet overwhelmed the folks at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Cubans), photographers put her through endless retakes in the humid cabin, until she fainted. Again & again, she told her "own story." (Sample quote: "I was in bed alone every night I was away from Jack.") Correspondent James Desmond of the tabloid New York Daily News gravely reported that her shipboard life was not all ecstasy, but "something too unglamorous for the fragile fabric of illicit love." (The headline: TIGHTWAD LOVER HAD ME SWAB DECKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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