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...fourth. Joe E. Brown played Elwood P. Dowd on the road; Bert Wheeler last summer spelled Frank Fay on Broadway...
Varsity 150's-Stroke, Hall, H.; seven, Dowd; six, Holt; five, Clark; four, Harrington; three, Hall, G.; two, Hall, A.; bow, Erhard; coxswain, Lipton
Since five, Fred Harrington, Jim Holt, Bill Dowd, Arthur George, and Capt. Howie Hall, of 1946's distinguished light eight are still rowing, it might be reasonable to expect another bumper season; but Coach Haines points out that a reputation is harder to maintain than to acquire. The empty places have been claimed by Dave Clark, a strong number five, and Henry Erhard who fulfills particularly well one of the cardinal functions of a good bow man, namely to bring the weight average down. His weight: 137. Despite this amazing individual achievement, the boat as a whole is too heavy...
...Buffalo Evening News cried that the calling of the strike marked a "day of infamy," and Mayor Bernard J. Dowd denounced the "open revolt against the Government." Leftwingers joyfully applauded the teachers' "militancy." All such talk seemed to distress the teachers. They disliked even the word "strike," and they tried to duck the whole issue by calling it an "abstention from work." ("Strike," explained one teacher primly, "has an ugly connotation...
...week's end, Buffalo's Mayor Dowd decided that he could, after all, do something about the teachers' troubles. He pledged the teachers raises of $300 to $625 (considerably less than they had asked). He would ask Albany for new taxes to pay for the bill. The teachers accepted his offer, and the school bells rang again in Buffalo...