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Competitor. In Buffalo, N.Y., William G. Zeron was sentenced for counterfeiting, although his half-dollars had more silver in them than the Government...
...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...
Exchange Student. Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, born in Germany, was brought to the U.S. as a boy, grew up in Buffalo, excelled in scholarship and sports at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1938 he went to a Technische Hochschule in Hannover as an exchange student. Last week, with $7,000 in his jeans, he came back on the S.S. Drottningholm, the Swedish exchange ship bringing Americans repatriated from Europe. He played craps with the passengers, bought them drinks...
...third all-star game, at Buffalo, was the first ever played in the minor International League. Contestants were its "northern" (Montreal, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo) and "southern" (Newark, Jersey City, Syracuse, Baltimore) teams. There, too, the game was clinched in the first inning. Led by Newark's George Stirnweiss and Baltimore's Hank Edwards, the southerners pounded four northern pitchers for eleven hits...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...