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Since a flying hockey puck travels a good deal faster than the human body, a topflight goalie needs the knack of being in the right place at the right time. It also helps to have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
...singers: "During the last decade there has not been even a handful of new singers in all the. world, of topflight operatic quality, who have not been engaged [by] the Metropolitan...
...Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest 2.5, has doubled in the last two weeks...
...topflight admen who gathered last week at the annual eastern conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies were not as cocky as usual. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the worried talk was all of television. Griped one adman: "The host of mysticism built up around television has top management scared stiff...