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Dudley boxers racked up a total of 18 points to win the title easily. The Commuters won in two other divisions, Fred Joseph decisioning John Bower of Dunster in the 135-lb. class while Morris Dratch won the 165-lb. title by gaining a decision over Stan Freedman of Eliot. Dudley also had one second-place as John DiTroia of Adams TKO'd the Dudley 125 entry, Don Tank...
Macdonald-Wright, brother of Mystery Writer S. S. Van Dine (real name: Willard Huntington Wright), grew up in a well-off hotel-managing family. His father treated him to painting lessons at five. At 15 young Stan rebelliously went to sea on a windjammer, got so seasick that he was put off at Hawaii. Private detectives sent by his father brought him back home. His family solved his wanderlust by sending him off at 16 to France to study...
After the issue of supporting candidates is decided the clubs settle down to the less spectacular task involved in political campaigning. Perhaps the best organized club for political action in 1952 was the HYDC, whose president, Stan Tobin, had worked long and hard in the summer planning for the campaign. He had police type maps of every precinct of Cambridge, and developed a system of methodically covering as much of the area as possible. Despite its small membership, the HYDC attracted the greatest number of workers during the autumn months...
Composed of former college players, mostly from Harvard and Dartmouth, the Dedham team includes the Riley brothers, Joe and Bill, who starred for the Big Green from 1945-47. The goalie is Harcourt Wood '49, and the starting defense combination is Steve Howe '50 and Stan Priddy of Dartmouth, who played on the 1948 American Olympic team. John Paine '42 is the starting center...
...time in his eight-year major-league career as a Brooklyn Dodger, Catcher Roy Campanella was elected Most Valuable Player in the National League. (Campy's other awards were in 1951 and '53.) Only other three-time winner in the National League: the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial (1943, '46, '48). ¶ Statisticians finally finished wading through the columns of figures they kept so carefully all during baseball season, computed the averages and named the Philadelphia Phillies' Center Fielder Richie Ashburn National League batting champion. Ashburn's average: .338. Other National League championships...