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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Top class in the number of entrants was the 155 pound division, boasting nine men including newly crowned House champion Johnny Baker of Dudley. There are five men competing at both 145 and 165, and four...
...years since he had graduated from Curtis-where, White says, "everyone was a genius"-he had learned that he was not one. Bowing his viola in the St. Louis Symphony for six years, then in Hollywood's radio and recording studios, he had become convinced that the top U.S. conservatories were "only helping students to fool themselves...
...position a lot. This was deceptive on Big Bill's part. "Durnan fools you," said another National Hockey League star last week. "One second he leaves a big hole on one side of the cage, but the next he's in there on top of the puck. He knows he can move fast...
...Vezina Trophy (for the goalie playing the most games on the team which allows the fewest goals) for four straight years. Last year he lost the trophy to Turk Broda, rough-&-tumble goalie of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but had cinched it again this season. On top of that, last week he set a modern record for consecutive minutes of play (309 min. 20 sec.) without allowing a score, beating Boston Bruin Frankie Brimsek's old mark by 77 min. 26 sec. and topping by 19 min. 8 sec. the standard of his idol, the Chicago Black Hawks...
...first hit the novelty big time last year with their Atomic Whirler hats -beanies with two or three pinwheels fastened on top. They sold about 3,000,000 whirlers and grossed about $700,000. Onetime employees of a Manhattan hatmaker, Ben & Joe set up shop for themselves twelve years ago. After losing money making standard boys' hats, they converted to novelties and in rapid order produced such nifties as Charmies (beanies dangling 24 small plastic animals), Easy Money Beanies (with five shiny new pennies attached), and hats with faces on the crowns. All were "pretested...