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...Rangers boast the biggest team in the N.H.L. They also boast Bernie ("Boom Boom") Geoffrion, the fifth highest scorer (375 goals) in N.H.L. history. Lured out of retirement by a $25,000-a-year contract, Geoffrion is a fierce competitor who needles his teammates unmerci fully. One day after a particularly tough workout, 22-year-old Rookie Bryan Campbell complained: "I should have been a banker." Exploded Geoffrion: "You little s.o.b. I'm 35. You're 22. What are you complaining about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Hockey: Look Who's No. 1 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...station, the gang raged on, beat up another man, slugged 16-year-old Howard Weiner unconscious with a bottle, then pummeled him unmerci fully. Suddenly a young Negro bystander shouted, "The police are coming!" The boy who shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Terror on the Trains | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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