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Boston University is a good American college hockey team. It is typical of the squads that will face the Crimson this winter. But BU has nobody who can make the Bruins and nobody who can skate like Buddy O'Connor or check like Jack Crawford. Nor do they have any budding Bruins, or even Olympic stars, for that matter...
...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...
...press conference held shortly after he was elected governor he cried: "Huey couldn't have been elected dogcatcher without my help . . ." But these honest outbursts of rage & envy have been infrequent. Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice...
Howdy, Mr. Ice has. besides, some engaging newcomers: the 1948 Olympics' pretty Eileen Seigh, a figure skater of uncommon grace and skill; Former Model Jinx Clark; Jazz Skater Rudy Richards, who jitterbugs remarkably, but with the slight-and highly welcome-touch of restraint that ice and skates impose. Even more rewarding are two such Center standbys as Skippy Baxter, who can skate both very fast and fancy, and Freddie Trenkler, for whose great comic shenanigans familiarity only breeds admiration...
...will serve, along with John Sauer, as a replacement for departed backfield coach Andy Gustafson, but probably will not do anything with wrestling. "I regret leaving the wrestling team which now seems to be the major minor sport at College," he said. "Blaik wanted to know if I could skate...