Word: deweyitis
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Against Yale's Bob Dewey, Ufford put on one of his finest exhibitions of crafty court play, winning by lopsided scores of 15-7, 15-5, 15-5. Ufford placed his shots so deftly that few volleys lasted more then ten shots. He broke into a run only occasionally, while sending Dewey scampering around in circles...
Spectators literally breathed down each others necks watching the Ufford-Dewey event. But Ufford so outclassed Dewey that it was essentially a dull match, and not until Ufford took his last point--a scant 20 minutes after play began--did the gallery break into applause...
Charlie Ufford and Dave Watts will be favored as usual in the top two positions. Neither Ufford nor Watts has ever last in an intercollegiate dual meet and this will be the last meet for both men. Their probable Blue opponents will be Blair Murphy and Bob Dewey, in either order, depending on the outcome of a challenge match yesterday...
During five years at Albany, Brownell became known as a liberal legislator, pushed through measures that Special Prosecutor Tom Dewey wanted for his crime-busting and those that Fiorello La Guardia wanted to reform New York City's government. His successes came only after he used a prenatal political advantage. Says he: "At first, I couldn't get anything through. And then I found out what the trouble was. Among those upstate Republicans, a Republican from the city was considered worse than a Democrat. After I told them my father came from Madison County and my mother from...
...youngest 9. Until last month, they lived quietly in a ten-room town house on Manhattan's gracious Gramercy Park. They love the theater, political confabs with friends, and long evenings at home with books and records. The most intensely pursued family interest is baseball. During the 1948 Dewey campaign, Brownell and Harold Talbott (now Secretary of the Air Force) rented a box at Yankee Stadium to entertain visiting politicos. They kept the box from then on. Mrs. Brownell, a convert to baseball, attended 60 games the first year, now knows the averages of all the leading players...