Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence is one of the last of the old city bosses. At the same time he is the dean of a new breed which realizes that a successful 1957-type politician must deal out as much progress as patronage if he wants to be reelected...
Bipartisan Burst. Dave Lawrence began his political schooling early. His teamster father was Democratic chairman of lower Pittsburgh's tough Third Ward. At 14 young Dave landed his first job: office boy to Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...
Rounding out the back line are Dave Holmes and Richard Carey, in the centres, and Steve Joseph at fullback. Starters Bob Downs, concussed last week, and Hal Churchill are missing...
...fall throughout the day, the straight bread-and-butter plays which grind out yardage in small chunks will probably decide the outcome of the game. Penn's flashy sophomore halfbacks, Fred Doelling, John Hanlon, and John Terpak will probably give way to the fullback thrusts of John Wright and Dave Sikarski. Wright opened the season at halfback but was switched to the fullback spot when Terpak, Hanlon, and Doelling showed well in early games...
...touchdown came in the last five minutes of play, when Lowell quarter back Dave Gessner spotted a defensive shift in the Eliot secondary, and called a quarterback sneak that netted 10 yards and a touchdown...