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...where his father is calmly, patiently instructing him on how to keep his little four-year-old ankles straight, shift the puck from side to side and let that slap shot go. Father Duke dies, but his creation lives on, and we watch him go from Squirt to Pee Wee to Midget to Bantam to the Junior Leagues, and finally, as Derek Sanderson looks on, to a triumphant performance at Toronto and the OHA championship...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Winter Comes Early | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

Medical Restraint. A man with a self-described "penchant for reflection in the wee hours of the morning," Poe bases his case for what he terms "medical restraint" on a lifetime of observing the sick and dying. As a youngster in Roanoke, Va., he accompanied his father, a Baptist minister, on pastoral visits to the old and discouraged. "I'm pretty well steeped in the golden rule," he says, "and I'm old enough [53] to figure how I'd want to be treated some day. I don't want to be cycled and recycled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specialty for Losers | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

Taylor is also a program coordinator for the Park and Recreation Department, where he organizes Bantam and Pee Wee hockey leagues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Hockey Surprises All Pre-Season Pessimists | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...fluty call of a curlew heralds the first light of dawn. A faraway widgeon whistles to its companions. A rid off in the dark shallows, a flock of shelduck guffaw at one another like wee-hour carousers wending their way home. MacKenzie Thorpe is in his natural habitat. He is guiding three "guns" across the desolate marshlands of Lincolnshire on England's east coast. Bowlegged and bearded, he creeps through the high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wild-Goose Man | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland wee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through the Sound Barrier | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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