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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Chicago Black Hawks had won, 4-1 (and ten stitches had been taken in the first citizen's head), Reardon and Gravelle were led off to the police station, booked and released under $200 bail. Next week when the Canadiens play in Chicago again, they will have a chance to tell the judge all about it. Charges: assault with deadly weapons...
...winning golf's biggest prize, the U.S. Open. But he won enough assorted other tournaments this year to be far & away the game's leading money winner, with $30,893. Last week, with the poise of a magician about to perform his tricks, Sam stepped to the first tee of the Pinehurst (N.C.) Country Club for one of the last big tournaments of golf's fiscal year: the North and South Open...
...writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such a benign climate of opinion that the current love affair between psychoanalysis and religion has been, time & again, consummated. There have been bickerings . . . and the Catholic Church has shown itself to be a rather frigid partner. But, all in all, things have gone well, and the occasional Catholic reserve has been more than made...
After studying at Virginia's Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Last week Albert Johnstone accepted his first call-to nearby Ashland Presbyterian Church. Said the tall Rev. Mr. Johnstone: "I plan to do the best...
...static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...