Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while it looked as though the two stars might be fighting for second money as a 44-1 shot named Sweet Luck leaped into the lead. Going into the last turn, Trainer-Driver Stanley Dancer abruptly swung Cardigan Bay wide to make his move; at almost the same instant, Driver Frank Ervin cracked his whip, and Bret Hanover rushed forward to challenge for the lead. He never quite got there. At the wire, old Cardigan Bay was a length ahead. Loser Ervin offered no alibis. "I had a good journey," he said. "But Cardigan Bay is a great horse...
...Case of the Final Fade-Out," the last new episode of this nine-year-old series, which is now being turned out to the pasture where the reruns grow. Three producers of the series will appear as extras in the episode, and Author Erie Stanley Gardner will play the judge. The plot is appropriate: a TV producer is found strangled with one of his own films...
...around-London locations: Trafalgar Square, the Zoo, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take out a gun and shoot. Instead, Director Stanley Donen (Charade, Indiscreet) assigns a helicopter and a wrecking crane to tasks of mayhem, and later, in a quiet English field, three lumbering farm machines-all, of course, painted in primary hues-turn murderous...
Fair guess-considering that Blake's favored Canadiens trailed the ragtag Red Wings 2-0 after the first two games of the best-of-seven playoffs. The Canadiens were the defending Stanley Cup champions. They had won the regular-season National Hockey League championship (Detroit finished fourth), and they had wiped up the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 in the playoff semifinals. By comparison, the main thing the Red Wings had going for them was Gordie Howe, the alltime scoring champion (with 624 goals) of the N.H.L. But Gordie was 37 and slowing down; eleven other...
...that makes hockey wildly exciting, the loose puck bounced off Henri Richard's shoulder, hit the ice and trickled into the nets. The Red Wings bitterly protested that Richard had illegally slapped the puck -to no avail. By a score of 3-2, the Canadiens had won the Stanley Cup for the 13th time and the second year in a row. His chest pains long forgotten, Coach Blake surveyed the huge silver trophy. "Take it to the train," he ordered, "and fill it with champagne...