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...York Ranger Goalie Chuck Rayner threw himself vainly in the direction of a hockey puck he could not quite see. The shot, winged at him from 25 feet away, burst through a melee of players and whirling sticks and into the net. The red light flashed to signify a goal. Thus, a little past midnight one night this week, the Detroit Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup in seven years...
...teams tied, 3-3, the game went into overtime. At the end of 20 minutes the score was still 3-3. The bedraggled players were given a 15-minute respite, then were called back onto the ice. Detroit, seemingly the fresher, kept most of the play on the Ranger ice. The game ended eight minutes later when Substitute Detroit Wingman Pete Babando shot the puck past Goalie Rayner, to make...
...Ranger Coach Lynn Patrick had worked wonders with his team, but he saw the end before it came. Said he: "Once the overtime started I figured we were through. The boys just had nothing left...
...primarily the fault of educators. Wrote Hutchins: "Even a perfect educational system would have a hard time setting up an effective cultural opposition to the storm of trash and propaganda that now beats upon the American from birth . . . Comic books and Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion: "We can expect no improvement until the day the American people rise up and hurl their radio sets into the streets. But that...
...Atomic Age has also reached the cereal box. A while back, one brand in cahoots with the Lone Ranger, came out with an "Atomic Energy Ring." Built in the shape of a torpedo, the ring was "guaranteed to contain genuine atoms," and, in a reassuring Note to Parents, it was further guaranteed that "the atomic energy contained in this ring is absolutely harmless...