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While Chicago and Toronto fight for the National Hockey League lead, Montreal, Detroit, and New York will probably be fighting for third and fourth place and a qualifying position in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Canadiens and Red Wings third and fourth last year, but a revamped Ranger may pull one of them down this season...
...valuable talent over the winter, and could place as high as third. Jacques Plante, MVP two years ago, takes over for goalie Gump Worsley. Donnie Marshall and Phil Goyette at center ice, along with Val Fonteyne, one of the league's top penalty killers, will fill handsomely two former Ranger gaps. Right wing Andy Bathgate, among the league's top scorers for the last eight years, will miss left wing Dean Prentice, who is now a Bruin. However, he should team up well with Goyette as his center. If Camille Henry can continue to score goals and Doug Harvey...
Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is admittedly far behind in its campaign to explore the moon's surface by means of unmanned Ranger spacecraft. Of the five Rangers launched so far, none has worked well enough to send back useful information. J.P.L. blames a good part of the failure on the heat treatment given the Rangers to prevent them from contaminating the moon with earthly microorganisms; but whatever the "cause, the delay is already on the books...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...Year's Eve parties than for the pictures he put out, Spiegel decided that what might hold true for roses was simply not so for him, renamed himself "for professional purposes" S. P. Eagle. Hollywood roared with laughter; sports referred to one Eagle picture as The S. T. Ranger, suggested that Z. A. Nuck and L. U. Bitsch follow Sam's lead. But Spiegel played the game for twelve years, relinquishing the gag only when Director Elia Kazan told him On the Waterfront was good enough to risk his real name for. Variety headlined the news: THE EAGLE...