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...half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack...
...Princeton only used two lines during the evening, and defensemen Mo Cheston and George Morris rarely left the ice. The varsity used no less than 17 men, as Coach Cooney Weil-and broke up the second line midway through the game to put Les Duncan back on defense, and skate Dick Reilly with Paul Kelley and Mo Balboni...
...opened the scoring by deflecting Dick McLaughlin's blast from the left alley at 11:59, after the varsity forced play in the Dartmouth zone. Harvard fans were shocked six minutes later when McLaughlin fumbled a pass at his blue line allowing the Indians' high scorer Red Anderson to skate in the right alley and fire the disk into the lower right corner of the goal...
First line left wing Bill Beckett attributed the lopsided score to the fact that the Huskies "did not skate very well." He said they were unable to handle the puck or control it in their territory...
...Skate trouble sent Jerry Toppazzini to the bench while his line was operating, and Coach Milt Schmidt called on his spare forward, Dutch Reibel, as a replacement...