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...that, last week he set a modern record for consecutive minutes of play (309 min. 20 sec.) without allowing a score, beating Boston Bruin Frankie Brimsek's old mark by 77 min. 26 sec. and topping by 19 min. 8 sec. the standard of his idol, the Chicago Black Hawks' late, great Charlie Gardiner...
...Portrait of Jennie and the British-made The Fallen Idol...
...find six pieces in the book worth careful reading. One is an early story of childhood called The End of the Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance...
Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...
...staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask beside it, made for a Central American Indian rite...