Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Rangers skated onto the ice of drafty Chicago Stadium one night last week, a somber figure watched unobtrusively from a mezzanine seat. For the first time in 22 years, 47-year-old Frank Boucher was neither in a Ranger uniform nor on the Ranger bench. Boucher, one of hockey's greatest centers, had stepped down as coach of the last-place Rangers, though he would continue as manager. In his spot on the bench sat a big handsome blond in a polo coat, a member of hockey's first family...
...nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying to get by on his name: his father, Lester Patrick, one of the patron saints...
...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
Even in television, monolithic NBC seemed to be having trouble keeping its balance. Last week the Lanny Ross show announced a TV ice show which would feature raspberry-colored ice to eliminate glare from the screen. But a compressor unit failed to do its job and by program time the footing was closer to raspberry sherbet. As a replacement, NBC hustled up some film shorts. Two hours later the ice show finally went...
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...