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This year, trouble dogged the U.S. team. Coach Jack Riley upset morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping...
...final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become...
Married. Dolores Del Rio, 54, durable, still beautiful Mexican-born cinemactress (What Price Glory?); and Lewis A. Riley Jr., 45, TV producer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Newark...
...carried Eddie Guest to fame and wealth. With the Free Press as his home base, Guest at one time saw his verses syndicated in 275 newspapers. He filled 25 books, and some 3,000,000 people bought them, as before they had bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb Riley. A Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies...
Guest's success confounded him almost as much as it did his critics. As well as anyone else he knew his limitations. "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used to write," said Guest. "All he tried to be was sincere." All Eddie Guest was was sincere; reading his verses on TV, he used to weep with the emotions they aroused in him. And perhaps it was because millions of readers recognized sincerity and shared in those emotions that Edgar A. Guest, the newspaperman who wrote verse, was a U.S. phenomenon...