Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, Indiana University Professor John Robert Moore averred that Shakespeare was not antiSemitic. Shylock, said he, was not intended as a gibe at the Jews: Shakespeare meant him to be played as a comic figure, like Pantaloon...
Henry Sedgewick and Dick Lucas are the first string defensemen, whose size and consistency has shown to advantage. Priddy now carries four netmen, headed by alert Phil Clark, who brings experience in Detroit amateur hockey...
Toronto's rough, tough Maple Leafs, known as hockey's bad men, had no corner on rowdiness. The Detroit Red Wings, no sissies themselves, met them whack for whack two weeks ago. Last week, with the two teams neck & neck (or throat to throat) for the National Hockey League lead, 13,284 Torontonians turned out to see another battle of bashed heads...
...first period, Detroit's aggressive Gordon Howe knocked Toronto's Joe Klukay into the boards. He lay there unconscious for a few seconds. The crowd booed, and sat back hopefully for more of the same. But for the next two periods, despite eleven penalties for high-sticking, holding, interference, slashing and charging, both teams were overcome by a sudden fit of manners. Seven seconds before the game's end, the Leafs, with a dramatic sally, salvaged a 4-4 tie, and kept their slim, one-point league lead. The game's flashes of roughness were...
Toronto has brawn, getting by on what one rival manager calls "bull strength and ignorance." Montreal has Maurice Richard (TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...