Word: trios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like the hottest trio in all hockey history. From the season's start, the Montreal Canadiens' forward line had bewildered National Hockey League goalies with its machine-gun procession of shots. When the season ended this week, the trio had rolled up a dazzling, all-time scoring record of 104 goals, giving the Canadiens the League victory (won 38, tied 4, lost 8). Individual performances by Right Wing Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard, Center Elmer ("Ski Jump") Lach and Left Wing Hector ("Toe") Blake were just as brilliant as the teamwork: Richard had zinged a record-breaking total...
...York License Commissioner Paul Moss had gone the victory in his arbitrary closing of the Lesbian play Trio (TIME, March 12). But it may be the last such victory he and his successors ever have. Last week, after a session with representatives of 19 protesting organizations, Mayor LaGuardia agreed to support legislation preventing any license commissioner from closing a play without a prior jury conviction of its producers...
...hook for letting a cocotte be carried to her bedroom in a young man's arms, relatively few Broadway shows have been run off the boards. Last week, after a checkered career, another show joined the blacklist. For two months last fall Dorothy and Howard Baker's Trio struggled-because of its Lesbian subject matter (a young girl enslaved by a French woman professor and at length set free by her love for a young man)-to find a Broadway theater (TIME, Jan. 8). Finally lodged at the Belasco, it played there undisturbed for two months. Then, suddenly...
...once a barrage of furious criticism opened up against Moss. The man who had called Trio "lewd, lascivious and immoral" was himself called "dictatorial," "bigoted," "one-man censor."* In the growing uproar, 19 organizations denounced Moss. Some demanded that Mayor LaGuardia fire...
...only passed on the application for a theater license." Meanwhile Playwright Elmer Rice and Director Margaret Webster resigned from the board of the Mayor's pet project, the New York City Center of Drama and Music, because Moss helps run it.* And Lee Sabinson, producer of Trio, sued Moss for $1,000,000 damages...