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...become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf...
...Toronto Maple Leafs have the youngest forward line in the National Hockey League?Conacher, Primeau and Harvey Jackson, youngest player in the league and its leading scorer. In the league season, they lost most of their games away from home but only four in Toronto's new hockey rink, Maple Leaf Gardens. This was to their advantage last week when they played the New York Rangers in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The last three of the five-game series were scheduled for Toronto. The Maple Leafs started by winning the first game, 6 to 4, in New York...
...which they were supposed to net before the goalie could clear. This has been the attacking plan of the professionals. In the McGill game, however, the Canadians poke-checking often caught the puck at mid-ice, leaving the two Harvard defense men at the mercy of the entire Maple Leaf forward line. In this situation, the second team should theoretically always score and where this continually occurs the primarily defensive team usually wins. Harvard was not long to learn by experience, however, and in subsequent games the Crimson center was made responsible for taking out one of the rival forwards...
...kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone...
Elsewhere in these columns apears an article by the Under Secretary of State which peels much of the gold leaf from governmental careers. Service to the United States seems much like labor in any business, full of detail, clerical precision, and hard work. There is little in his report which would inspire the lofty sentiment of Stephen Decatur in the undergraduates breast...