Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...
Last year's Toronto Maple Leafs finished next to the cellar, missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 16 years. Also-and fans thought they saw the connection-they were the most even-tempered, law-abiding team in the whole National Hockey League. This fall the Leafs have turned a brighter, more attractive color. Last week they could point with pride to league leadership in 1) games won, 2) time per game in the penalty...
...Lady Byng trophy, given annually to the "most gentlemanly" player in the National Hockey League. Donated in 1924 by a purist hockey fan from England, it was won last year not by a Leaf but by "Toe" Blake of the Montreal Canadiens...
Fledgling P.I.A. was the baby of Clement Melville Keys, 70, who has sired many a line. A onetime classics professor, hockey player, and reporter, Keys got into big-time aviation by winning control of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., built around it a web of manufacturing and financial companies until he was probably the No. 1 U.S. air operator. In 1932, when he retired from aviation because of his health, Keys was a top executive of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., T.W.A North American Aviation, Inc., and a director of some ten other aviation companies...
...Over 150 hockey hopefuls will take to the Boston Arena ice today and tomorrow for the opening practice sessions of the 1946-1947 season...