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...writers, producers and directors dredged up last year by the congressional investigation of Communism in Hollywood was 44-year-old Screenwriter Lester Cole, a balding little man who earned up to $1,350 a week turning out such epics as The Romance of Rosy Ridge and Fiesta for MGM. Like the others, he had refused to say whether or not he was then or ever had been a member of the Communist Party. After he was cited for contempt of Congress, M-G-M suspended him from his job, giving as its reason the charge that he had violated...
...neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying to get by on his name: his father, Lester Patrick, one of the patron saints of professional hockey and the hero of one of its finest hours,* was manager-coach of the Rangers...
Last week, when young Patrick replaced Boucher, there were some who were still saying that he was helped by being the "boss's son." It was no secret that Frank Boucher, who starred on Lester Patrick's first 1926 six, had been on the outs with papa Patrick. As vice president and a substantial stockholder in the Garden (which owns the Rangers), Lester Patrick was obviously in a position to make it tough for Boucher. But Boucher insisted that the change was his idea, not Lester Patrick's. The job of manager-coach was just...
...training camp, crusty Lester Patrick tried to cut Lynn from the squad, but Frank Boucher persuaded him to keep the boy on. Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...
Skeptics. In Viola, Wis., Lester Heal smugly reported to police that burglars had smashed into his safe labeled "No money here," had gone away emptyhanded...