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The Fur Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for...
Bowdoin was the first to push a score across the home platter when two of the Polar Bears romped across in the top half of the second. Finnegan opened the inning by drawing a walk from Moravec. Charlie Senseney booted Towne's grounder to second and then threw wide to...
There was no more scoring until the top of the fifth. In this frame Bowdoin scored three runs without getting a hit. DeKalb and Nevens walked. Moravec committed a balk, advancing them a base, Page fanned. The next man up, Clark, hit an easy grounder to Sullivan at third. In...
During the war the machinists, over company protests, secured a maintenance of membership clause from the War Labor Board. At war's end, Yale & Towne tried to drop the clause. The machinists struck -the company was out "to bust the union." Among the first to walk out were veterans...
Times had changed. Stamford no longer sheltered a society of native sons. Yale & Towne, with branches elsewhere in the U.S., Canada and England, no longer belonged exclusively to Stamford.