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...seven frantic minutes last night, Harvard ralled from a 2-0 deficit to slap an incredible 3-2 win on an aroused Boston University hockey team...
...varsity proceeded to control the puck during the early minutes of the last period but failed to best Kennedy in the goal. After eight minutes, however, How ell bulleted a hard slap shot for the point. The shot was aimed straight at Kennedy, who was ready to field it in self-defense; Morse deflected the puck into the unguarded part of the goal, and Kennedy didn't have a chance...
...send half a dozen men about Manhattan wearing berets and carrying green pissoirs plastered with red signs for Irma La Douce. His most publicized feat occurred when Look Back in Anger seemed tottery and Merrick paid a dizzy young woman $250 to climb up over the footlights and slap Actor Kenneth Haigh's face because, she screamed, he was such a mean man. (Merrick tells the story well, and undoubtedly it actually happened. But a listener finds himself mentally handicapping everything the producer says. The feeling arises that there may be, say, a 15% chance that the girl whacked...
Bring Back Brooks. A lot of people on Broadway or in the press would gladly slap Merrick's face without fee. Sad-eyed, baby-complexioned, with a well-trimmed mustache and an equally well-trimmed smile, Merrick dotes on the acrimony that has earned him the nickname, The Abominable Showman (he says he hates the tag, but wears it like a five-carat stickpin). He keeps the feuds alive by spraying insults like flu germs. Of competing Producer Roger Stevens, he says: "I deliberately bid on bad plays, hoping he'll buy them. He'll hear...
...Slap-Happy. Most N.H.L. goalies nurse fetishes; Hall is superstitious only about not becoming superstitious. "If I find myself putting on my right skate first before a game, I'll change to the left just so I don't get into the habit of putting on the right one first all the time." During a game. Hall frets most while the Black Hawks are on the attack ("I start fighting myself, particularly if the other goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over...