Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weiland in counting on veterans like Captain Lew Preston, Joe Kittredge, and Doug Anderson, but also is looking to the sophomore forward combination of Walt Greeley and Amory Hubbard, and sophomore goalies Nate Corning and Brad Richardson for a youthful influence. He has wasted no time in cutting the squad down to a workable size, with three tentative lines and two defense pairs...
...that he comes through as almost nothing of a writer. Nor is his technique of winking one eye while wiping a tear from the other, of crossing soap-opera passion with backstage pranks, more than rarely a help. He has merely opened Pandora's box in Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties, supposedly copied from those worn by Elbert (Message to Garcia) Hubbard, give him a faintly poetic...
...scientific works have had such popular acclaim; "dianeties" has sold 40,000 copies by August (each reader automatically becoming a qualified dianetieian) and has been about fourth on the best seller list ever since. Science--fiction addicts have followed Hubbard's releases in "Astounding Science Fiction" down to the latest monograph in the October issue; astounding -sounding jargon or the absence from the 450-page book of ay experimental evidence cannot balk them. The appeal of the quick sure-cure is not surprising. Hubbard's claims are as disarming as an old-fashioned patent-medicine label...
...Hubbard himself taken no chances. His wife was in the (unfinished) process of clearing him 18 months ago, when she became pregnant. Hubbard hasn't been near her since. Afraid he might give the baby engrams, he says...