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Fitzsimmons, who averaged 30 saves a game as a sophomore while splitting the goalic chores with Wade Welch '65, is a prospect for stardom if he can withstand the pressure that will be incessant once December arrives. Senior Dex Newton will fill in the nets if anything happens to Fitzsimmons...
...than a warmup against paunchy veterans from yesteryear. The alumni featured Gene Kinasewich, now playing on the Eastern Olympic Hockey Club, Bob and Bill Cleary, stars of the U.S. Olympic hockey teams in '60 and '64, Ike Ikauniks, all-East for Harvard two seasons ago, and John Daly and Wade Weich, last year's captain and goalie, respectively...
Harvesting Hostility. It is particularly ironic, say the authors, that Ruby's first lawyer, Tom Howard of Dallas, mapped the one strategy that District Attorney Henry M. Wade feared most: the plausible defense that Ruby shot Lee Oswald while "under the influence of a sudden passion arising from an adequate cause." Howard wanted the jury to view Ruby's crime as murder without malice, which in Texas carries a maximum sentence of five years...
While the ineffable Judge Brown made good use of "a green cuspidor strategically located by his left foot," he rejected virtually every defense objection, say the authors. D.A. Wade successfully introduced Ruby's apparently sane statements after the shooting ("I hope I killed the son of a bitch"), including one that indicated premeditation ("I first planned to kill him at the Friday night press conference"). All of which Belli was forced to explain as "confabulation," by which he meant that the statements were Ruby's effort to rationalize his alleged blackout when he pulled the trigger. Already skeptical...
Squalid Aftermath. The authors give high marks to Henry Wade as a trial tactician, even though they argue that he introduced improper evidence. By contrast, they note that Belli failed even to try to talk the jury out of the death penalty...