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Though most goalies on their off nights look as though they could no more stop a pumpkin than a puck, Goalie Sawchuk, a steel-nerved youngster of Ukrainian descent, never seems to get rattled. Says admiring Detroit General Manager Jack Adams: "In all the years we have watched Terry he's never had a bad game. He is always alert and reacting to every player's maneuverings from the minute that man gets the puck...
...Bizarre Sisters offers up popular fiction's oldest standby: the lowly Cinderella who suffers endlessly at the hands of cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow...
...mice are no longer bit-players merely to be hitched to the pumpkin but full-blown Disney creations, scampering and squealing through the whole story in a chivalrous conspiracy to help Cinderella. Their fellow conspirators include birds, an amiable barnyard nag and a hound named Bruno, who is clearly a close relative of Pluto. Other new characters: a monocled, silly-ass grand duke and the villainous Lucifer, a spoiled, airily arrogant...
...when he broke from the party, with instructions to open it if anything should happen to him or his wife, Esther. In the envelope were 43 typed copies of State Department documents and four memoranda in Alger Hiss's handwriting. Several nights later, from a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm where he had hidden them, Chambers produced five rolls of microfilm. When developed, they produced a three-ft. stack of highly confidential Government dispatches which Chambers said Hiss had given...
...Binger had said that hiding the stolen documents in a pumpkin was bizarre behavior. Was it bizarre for Benedict Arnold, when he sold out West Point to the British, to hide the plans in Major Andre's shoe? "No," said the doctor. Was it bizarre for Moses' mother to hide him in the bulrushes? "She could scarcely put him in a safety-deposit box," said the doctor brightly...