Word: charleyism
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Defenseman Mike Patterson missed Wednesday's 4-1 victory over Bowdoin due to a Charley horse but should be back on the ice tonight. Patterson's defensive skills were not needed against the powerless Maine team, but they are a must tonight if the high scoring Bruins are to be stopped. Ike Ikauniks, clubbed in the car by the Bowdoin goalie Wednesday, hasn't missed a practice, and should also be ready tonight...
...Broadway, published Mister Abbott, an account of his own life-all 76 years of it. Since he has been director, producer, writer, actor or plastic surgeon for 103 Broadway shows of all types except the intellectual-Twentieth Century, Room Service, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Never Too Late-it might have been expected that his book would contain a profusion of insights and smoky anecdotes...
...poet, editor, and a nihilist who thinks that "1 must be really half dead" but is not particularly disturbed by the fact: most of contemporary America, he implies, is in pretty much the same shape. The agent of his undoing is a World War II French waif, Charley Dupont, who "was born in Europe's misery and came to America in his youth, imbued with the irony of hope." Dupont bears a disturbing message: "It's okay to believe," and the grail he seeks is simply citizenship papers...
...Charley's wife is, like the narrator, a nothing, and not surprisingly the two nothings mate. As the affair continues, it becomes increasingly important to the two participants to see Charley fail-in his career as an architect and in his quest for citizenship. When Charley passes his citizenship test, his wife runs away with a eunuch. Her desertion drives her narrator-lover into madness...
...massage, Dr. Grant points out, should not be tried in such joint disorders as rheumatoid arthritis, which are known to be eased by heat and aggravated by cold. But for routine strains, sprains, bruises and Charley horses, he finds chilling to the point of numbness the most effective treatment yet devised. And even though patients may complain at first of its discomfort, they usually feel so much better after the treatment that they go home and do it for themselves...