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...doubles play, Terry Clarke and Leslie Miller lost to Joanne Ruel and Cathy Streich, 1-6, 4-6. Diane Leary and Sheila Hopkins turned the tables in the second doubles, easing by their BC opponents Martha Moorhead and Betty Quigley...
...George, has a formidable part. He tries hard but either acts too strongly or too weakly. Portraying Curley is Nelson Denis who should be driving a motorcycle with Hell's Angels. His acting is enjoyable though he should have saved it for West Side Story. Curley's wife, Susan Ruel, is attractive yet much too nice and not bitchy enough for her part. Finally, Ken Rosenfield, the Boss, not only looks out of place but acts the same...
...good-natured dolt who blocked pitches and flying spikes by day, then lumbers out of the clubhouse stroking a dead squirrel in his coat pocket. The catcher's cumbersome equipment was even dubbed the "tools of ignorance" by one of the trade's own, "Muddy" Ruel of the old Washington Senators, whose unenviable job it was to bring down Walter Johnson's smoking fastball. But ignorance is not strength in the complex world of the catcher, and it never has been. Pitching may well be 75% of baseball but a savvy signal caller behind the plate...
...that point, Canadien Coach Claude Ruel, knowing his team was not only beaten but behind New York in goals scored, pulled his goalie in favor of an extra forward-just as the Rangers had yanked their goalie that afternoon in order to pile up scores against Detroit. But the Canadien strategy backfired: Chicago's defense held, and the Hawks poured five goals of their own into the empty Canadien net to win a 10-2 fiasco. For the first time in the history of the league, a play-off spot was determined by goals scored: New York 246, Montreal...
...could also be generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...