Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Byng trophy, given annually to the "most gentlemanly" player in the National Hockey League. Donated in 1924 by a purist hockey fan from England, it was won last year not by a Leaf but by "Toe" Blake of the Montreal Canadiens...
After six hours of grueling play, Reshevsky was two pawns to the good. Suddenly, after the 66th move, Ulvestad resigned. To the parlor chess player, who doesn't know when he is licked, and thinks he has a fighting chance until he is behind by a rook, two knights and his queen, it was an outrage. But Reshevsky, Ulvestad and the initiates knew that, between masters, Ulvestad's position was no longer tenable. Reshevsky, four-time winner of the biennial U.S. championship, had clinched it again...
Music for the Stars. U.C.L.A., which romped past little Montana last week, has only to beat neighboring U.S.C. for a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Its most touted player, serious, studious Burr Baldwin, perhaps the best end in the country, is so good that he has an ex-All-American (Phil Tinsley, formerly of Georgia Tech) as an understudy. Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who coached crack teams at Los Angeles High School for 16 years before he got his big chance with the Bruins last year, feels that ex-G.I.s will not swallow the old get-out-there-&-fight...
...destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times...
...with hot music, Hoagy is beginning to cool off. Says he: "Looks to me like jazz is dying out. Nothing new coming down the groove. Same old construction. Everything built on the same old blues chords." Most jazzmen, he thinks, have lost the spirit epitomized by a colored piano player, who once told him: "Never play anything that ain't right. You may not make any money but you'll never get hostile with yourself...