Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Home, dining in a Hollywood restaurant with her white husband, Musical Director Lennie Hayton, took umbrage when a nearby patron voiced an insult at the singer and her race. Pretty Lena responded with drumfire-a hurricane lamp, some dishes and three ashtrays. Her startled detractor wound up with a gash over his eye. By the time cops arrived, cooler heads had prevailed, and no charges were brought by either side...
Stitches to Show. Attacking in the opening minutes, the bull-necked right wing skated full tilt into the goalie's cage, sprawled dazed on the ice with a 1½-in. gash over his right eye. But before the period was done, the Detroit Red Wings' Gordie Howe, 31, was back in action, went on to score an assist and a goal in his team's 3-0 victory over Chicago. The performance gave Howe the 947th point of his 14-year career to break by one point the alltime National Hockey League record of Montreal...