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...second line of Preston, Garrity, and Kittredge stole the show, earning more goals and assists than the other two lines combined. Preston, the center, worked well, producing one goal on a vicious shot in the first period and accounting for two others late in the game with beautiful passes...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters Defeat MIT in Opener, 10-5 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...other line is similarly high in potential, and that's why Coach Chase can't pick out his starters. On this line are Lew Preston, who averaged a goal a game in the half-season he played on the first line last year; Bill Garrity, also of last year's line; and Joe Kittredge, a scrappy junior up from the third line...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters, Girding for Opener, Boast an Experienced Team | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ring Out the Old | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...balding, 39-year-old Herman Ball, stepped up to become the Redskins' sixth coach in 13 years. Washington fans, who put the 'Skins ahead of the home-town university teams in their football favor, thought the change might cause at least one twinge of regret in George Preston Marshall, the ex-hoofer, ex-Hearst publisher (Washington Times) and millionaire laundryman who once exclaimed at a dinner party: "Congratulate me, folks, I've finally arrived socially-today I got the sheets of Mrs. Borden Harriman." Washington thought George would miss having a vice admiral to order around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ring Out the Old | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Against prompt charges of political censorship, the Maryland board argued: "Immorality . . . extends to the entire moral code"; therefore, a film "based upon deceit and misrepresentation" could be banned as a "moral breach." Prodded by the Baltimore Sunpapers, Governor W. Preston Lane Jr. asked his attorney general whether the censors were within their legal powers. Ruled Attorney General Hall Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Moral Breach | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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