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...Crimson pressed in after a tripping penalty to Pete Ward at 7:28. After several shots were turned away by Jones, Downes drew two defenders toward him at the right point, then fed to Anderson across ice. Anderson found Bill Collins screening Jones at the left corner. His hard slap was perfectly placed and the red light flashed...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Victorious Over Yale, 2-1 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...make-believe mayhem that has made professional wrestling one of the most prosperous trades in show business. Says bulb-nosed, cauliflower-eared Joseph ("Toots") Mondt, the 12-year veteran of the mat and now one of the most successful wrestlers' agents: "You don't see punch-drunk, slap-happy wrestlers. I know at least 60 of them that got out of it rich, and no more harm to 'em than cauliflower ears. This ain't like other sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...recession, the jump in federal revenues ''was more than the increase estimated in this budget." He asked Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain, suffering taxpayer, the President held out only the hope that his program would bring "tax reduction in the reasonably foreseeable future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Balanced, but Big | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson was trailing by a goal. Eagle speedster Ron Walsh capitalized on a tactic he used all evening, skating hard down the left alley and behind the nets, then centering to his center or wing. In this case he found Bill Daley waiting in front, and a 20-foot slap shot eluded Pratt...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Drops Match To B.C., 3-2 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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