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...overtime period is an ordinary occurrence in hockey. In the playoffs, two or three "sudden death" periods, in which the game ends when a goal is scored, are not unheard of. At Montreal last week, Maroons and Red Wings skated wearily up & down the ice through four such periods of 20 minutes each, without breaking the tie. While the streets outside the Forum emptied and the city grew dark, while spectators alternately dozed and woke with hoarse shouts when it looked as if something might happen, the players went on grimly playing. In the middle of the fifth overtime period...
...office, varied in two precedent-shattering respects. He held his "Court of St. James" levee in Buckingham Palace, and he drove thither not by State Coach but for the first time in British history on such an occasion in a motor car, one of his father's high, maroon Daimlers...
Unlike Greyhound, Trailways is not a corporation. It is an association of five big bus companies, three little ones, each with individual franchises, terminals, routes. Each will continue to act as a separate unit, run only its own busses. But all busses will be painted a common cream & maroon, bear a common name, issue through tickets on each others' lines, will therefore to the public seem identical in function with Greyhound. Only difference will be that Trailway riders will change busses frequently, no great disadvantage because bus riders constantly have to get out anyway...
...London last week was the new earnestness and gravity which have set themselves upon the features of Edward VIII since he became King. Instead of the swank Rolls-Royce which often used to carry him as Prince of Wales, His Majesty has taken to riding in the stately maroon Daimler of His late Majesty, enormous, high and with a performance anything but snappy...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr., 96, was taking his longest automobile ride of the season along Florida's Daytona Beach last fortnight when he spied one Al Garb, a beach photographer who took his picture six years ago. Ordering his big maroon limousine to stop, Oldster Rockefeller peered out, asked Al Garb how much money he had made from the photograph. Al Garb chirped a figure. Cackling with delight, Oldster Rockefeller complimented him on his industry, posed for another photograph (see cut) with which last week Cameraman Garb made more money...