Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, after a private session between a Russian diplomat and the Shah, Moscow abruptly toned down its attacks, and Radio Teheran also let up on the Russians...
Wonders cease, after all-even the wonderful rise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week, in the first all-Canadian hockey final since 1951, Montreal's Canadiens brought the saga to an end, defeating the Leafs 5-3 to become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...
What happened in early spring still has Toronto fans benumbed: the Leafs who went into March like lambs roared out like lions. Only five games from schedule's end, the New York Rangers were seven points ahead of Toronto and comfortably installed in fourth place, a ranking that secures a place in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the Leafs, who had not won more than two games in a row all season, got the coach's message, streaked to five big wins, the mesmerized Rangers collapsed. In the N.H.L.'s tensest finale in years, the Leafs were...
...shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
Last week Dear Liar wound up a highly successful "dry run" of 43 performances, hitting all the stops from Arizona to Florida. Next October, Cornell and Aherne will launch an even more ambitious tour stretching from Boston to Los Angeles. Finally, at year's end, they will arrive on Broadway for four weeks, then hit the road again. Bookings to date: solid through...