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Dean Austin Pardue wanted to be sure of his call. So the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo "thought and prayed" for a fortnight, last week decided to accept his election as Bishop of Pittsburgh's 21,000 Episcopalians. Said Dr. William Porkess, president of the Pittsburgh Diocese's Standing Committee which had also been praying: "We feel our prayers have been answered...
From his Hobart College days, Pardue has set an example of muscular Christianity. In 1919, he was the A.A.U.'s Middle Western breaststroke champion. He still goes almost daily for a half-hour splash in the Buffalo Athletic Club's pool. His wife (Dorothy Klotz) won Grantland Rice's rating of third best woman golfer in the U.S. in 1928. In all his parishes he has pushed amateur athletics...
This time there was a big If. Heretofore in annual conventions, the United Auto Workers, world's biggest union (membership: 1,077,899), had clamorously endorsed Franklin Roosevelt. Last week in Buffalo, 2,100 U.A.W. delegates soberly hedged on Term IV. The hedge: Franklin Roosevelt between now & then must prove he is still labor...
...vice president over Reuther's nominee, Dick Leonard, by about 300 votes. Apparently the rank & file seemed to think they could best protect themselves by perpetuating the U.A.W.'s civil war, thus keeping the balance of power in their own hands. Actually the U.A.W. went home from Buffalo no solid bloc for anything or anybody...
...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...