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Goals are the business of a hockey team's forward line, and the best forward line in hockey is the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line": Right Wing Bobbie Bauer, Centre Milt Schmidt, Left Wing Porky Dumart, who grew up together in Kitchener, Ont., Canada's "Little Berlin." Last season (their first in the big time) they spread-eagled every other forward line in the league by scoring 61 goals-more than a third of the Bruins' total for the season...
Last week, behind the Kraut Line, the Bruins snowed the New York Americans under, 8 goals to 3, to salt away their third straight National Hockey League title (26 wins, 8 losses, 12 ties). The Bruins had just managed to nose out Toronto's Maple Leafs, who had the same number of wins, six fewer ties, six more losses. Never before had any team won three titles in a row. Starting the season sluggishly, the Bruins suddenly clicked, went 23 games without a defeat, an all-time record. Chortled Manager Art Ross: "My gang would be great...
...when hockey season descends upon us. The first 100 words of any Bruin game story in a Boston paper deals with sauerkraut. Then, gradually through a complicated process of reasoning, the reader is brought up to the point where he can find out what kind of tollet paper the Kraut wingmen prefer...
Only recently Gene Autry, now the dandiest, gaudiest, most popular singing cowboy in all Hollywood, turned down an offer of $3,000 to endorse a cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene Autry went to work at $1,000 a week on a new half-hour radio show over CBS for Double Mint gum, replacing Wrigley's Gateway to Hollywood series of last year. First time out on radio's Melody Ranch, Gene lassoed the folks with...
...have given way to snappy uniforms and shiny boots, and when the newly elected Kepviselohdz (Chamber of Deputies) convened last week in its wing of the six acres of Gothic magnificence that house the Hungarian Parliament, the scene was less like a meeting of a cornfed legislature than a kraut-eating military congress...