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Yardling Hugh Smith and crewman Temple Morgan topped the evening's card, and, in an excellent boxing exhibition, Morgan outpointed the Carolinian to annex the 165-pound crown. Wigglesworth's 135-pound Russ Bath and John Dwyer of Thayer raced through three fast rounds, with wily, polished-looking Bath taking the honors...

Author: By Alexander C. Hozgland jr., | Title: One-Armed Boxer Wins 155 Pound Title Match by TKO | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

More than 500 telephones were plugged into Cambridge main lines over the weekend after having tantalized subscribers by remaining unconnected for weeks in their rooms or apartments. B.A. Dwyer, Cambridge manager of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company reported on Saturday that "many of the instruments" are in College Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Main Circuits Add 500 New Local Phones | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...lack of central switchboard equipment has prevented complete service although phones and wires are available, according to Dwyer. There are still 3000 unfilled requests for phones from residents and students of Cambridge, he says, including 300 pre-wired and waiting instruments which the switchboards and central dial phone machinery cannot yet accomodate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Main Circuits Add 500 New Local Phones | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...equipment is coming in bit by bit," Dwyer relates, "and we are giving service as it is available." While predicting another batch of satisfied applicants around March 1, Dwyer makes no promises for any service before April, when he expects to have received the required apparatus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Main Circuits Add 500 New Local Phones | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some of the city's schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside Man | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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