Word: stanchions
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...open goal with his team leading by one and intent on putting the game out of reach--Crimson goalie Tim Pendergast had abandoned the crease in an unsuccessful attempt to bat down a pass--a Harvard loss seemed inevitable. Lietman, however missed the shot, hitting the goal's left stanchion and opening the door for Harvard's final surge...
...settled down for a snack of ham sandwiches. Suddenly the No. 2 starboard rod bent crazily in its stanchion, and the whine of racing line pierced the stillness. Strike! "He's here! He's with us!" Peacock screamed. Donn Mann, 48, an experienced sport fisherman, ran to the fighting chair, strapping his canvas harness to the fiber-glass rod. Some swordfish like to tease the bait. Not this one. He had hit with the wallop of a freight train. Mann released the ratchet on the reel to let the fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened...
Chicago shut Gordie out, then New York, Montreal and Boston. Against New York, he even had a "gift" shot at an unprotected goal and banged the puck harmlessly off a metal stanchion. Normally cool and controlled, he acquired a noticeable tic, exploded in anger at a magazine photographer. "This pressure is getting me," he muttered. It was getting everybody: desperately trying to feed Gordie the puck, his teammates passed up dozens of easy shots for themselves, lost three out of five games. "We've got to get this goal and get it over with," grumbled Coach Sid Abel...
Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
Making the rounds of the dark, thunderous subway tunnels under Manhattan's Time Square one afternoon last week, a trackwalker was startled by the sight of a small boy lashed by wire to a steel stanchion. His hands and feet were bound, his mouth was stuffed with a gag, and his right shoe and stocking were off. He was moaning and tossing his tousled blond head...