ACCORDING to the Koran, Paradise is graced by a Garden of Delight in which every Muslim martyr is cherished by seventy deep-bosomed houris who recline on cool green mats beneath dates and pomegranates and refresh their lords with draughts from a brimming river of wine.

CONSTANTINE Falkland Cary Smythe, the most successful hockey executive in the world, has been called "a dead-end kid dressed up like Little Lord Fauntleroy” and it is a fact that almost everything about him is a paradox. Although he was a poor hockey player and has not laced on a skate since he failed to make the University of Toronto senior team more than thirty years ago, he has consistently produced one of the most colorful and, over the years, the best professional team in hockey.

LIFE HAD never looked better to Richard McCallum than it did one bright July morning when he stepped into an elevator in Vancouver's Medical-Dental Building. A tall, fair, quiet-mannered men of thirty, Dick McCallum dressed and looked the part of a successful young executive.