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Boston. . . well, what can you say about the Bruins? Dean Prentice, Bobby Leiter, Forbes Kennedy, Tom Johnson, and goalie Eddie Johnston have all been sidelined for the year with injuries, and Boston didn't have a chance to break its four-year string of last-place finishes...
...draw an analogy. In my days we had a baseball tournament for the Leiter Cup--whether this is still going on I do not know. Teams were organized by various individuals, these teams being made up of players who were not good enough for the varsity squad, and were entered in the tournament. Graduate students were also permitted to take part. I fielded a pretty good nine in the four years I was there, but we were beaten in the semi-finals by the Law School the first two years in very close and exciting games...
...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...
While virtually all of these matches were made on a balance sheet, a few ended with mutual love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but her parents were colorful. Mamma Leiter was something of a malapropster. With an imperious gesture she would call attention to the imported "statutes in the nickies" of her marbled mansion in Washington...
...Americans sound totally Teutonic. But readers will find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that the American conquerors will rescue him and make him burgomaster...