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...work something out," Alan Eagleson, lawyer for the players' association, told the rulers of the National Hockey League at a crisis meeting in New York. Eighteen teams compete in the N.H.L., some subsidiaries of large conglomerates. No significant cash appeared, and at length the owners could not decide whether to bury the Barons quietly to Chopin or more dramatically to Siegfried's funeral music from Götterdämmerung...
Faced with executive ennui, Eagleson had to work with desperate speed. If the Barons folded, at least ten players would be thrown out of work and certain games would be canceled. No disaster. Other troubled hockey teams, like the Pittsburgh Penguins, might also be seduced toward bankruptcy. No delight. Finally and critically, the deferred-income contract-basis of six-figure salaries in all sports-would at once become suspect. Who could sign a long-term deal with a team that might disappear in the short term...
...this year, while the Boston Bruins were roaring toward an Eastern Division title in the National Hockey League, Star Defenseman Bobby Orr was asked to do a TV commercial. It would have shown him making a sloppy play because he hadn't eaten his Wheaties. His attorney, Alan Eagleson, disdainfully rejected the idea. "Bobby Orr," said Eagleson, "does not get paid to make mistakes...
...reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
Last week Dr. Eagleson told the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board...