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Shepard says speed will be the important motor in the game, and he is revisiting his lineup in order to keep up with the quicker Penn team. Gerry Murphy will replace the slower but bigger Ed Blodnick. The other forward is Bill Dennis. Dick Lionette will start at center, while Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon will be at the guards...
...sabre to American army officers. "They had to come three times a week, just like freshmen in Physical Training." He fought on the American foil team in the 1928 Olympics, and started coaching at Harvard the next year. Even his mechanical skills--he helped design and build the motor of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis--have been useful in his life's sport. He designed the special practice mechanisms in the fencing room at the IAB. ("I had them patented, but everybody copied them anyway...
...minority interests (railroads and East Coast shippers), has never given its consent. Canada, feeling her newly won strength, has now announced that if Congress does not agree to a joint project before May, she will build the $300 million seaway alone. Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., hailed the Canadian seaway plan last week as "an example of initiative and imagination in action-the spirit of contemporary Canada...
Died. Alvan Macauley, 80, longtime (1916-39) president and general manager of the Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") Motor Car Co.; of uremic poisoning and pneumonia; in Clearwater, Fla. His favorite motto: "An hour of work" is better for America than "a dollar for dole...
Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...