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Jack Garrity got the comeback rolling midway through the second period. The junior center beat Orr on a rush and passed to wing George Murphy. Garrity continued hustling around the net, picked up Murphy's rebound in the corner, and flipped it behind goalie Ken Dryden into the cage...
Last week Breuer showed off a model of the memorial, to be built in the capital's West Potomac Park midway between Jefferson's and Lincoln's. But unlike those neoclassical memorials, Breuer's design calls for seven free standing walls, massive granite triangles each 60 ft. high at the apex, radiating from a central stone courtyard. Narrow pools of water run along the base of each wall; small contrariwise triangles beside the pools conceal spotlights. From the air, the monolithic walls appear to be the blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land...
...admitting them. For example, before Pearl Harbor, he told an incredulous correspondent, TIME'S Robert Sherrod, that in a future Pacific war, the role of heavy long-range bombers would be decisive. As it turned out, the B-17s produced no early miracles. After the Battle of Midway ("the closest squeak and the greatest victory"), it was clear to Marshall that the Navy's carrier-based fighter-bombers were the big weapon against Japan...
...Pooh we have the gruff Andrew T. Weil, who plays the part midway between the young Albert Alligator and a zeppelin. Christopher Robin is James Shuman, and vice versa. And Piglet is rendered in a whining monotone not unlike a dog-whistle by the porcine Francine Stone...
...Wiplash Willy, the shyster lawyer specializing in negligence cases, Matthau outdoes himself--and everyone else in the movie. Midway between Mosca and Louie Nizer, Wiplash Willy is a wonderful offense to the American legal process...