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...John A. Walz, professor of German, emeritus, died Saturday after a long illness...
Near Brandenburg, 2,000 workers in the Walz Werke (steel rolling mill) dropped their tools and formed a strike committee when they heard of the rebellion in Berlin from West Berlin's U.S.-sponsored RIAS radio. During the night some of their leaders were arrested; next day they all struck, and would not return to work even after a Russian officer offered to free the arrested men if they would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted...
...high-low stroke controversy came up again. Skip Walz had won the '46 EARC race at Wisconsin with his high stroking unit, while Harvard had finished ninth. Although most of the U.S. crews had by now adopted the low stroke, the high stroke advocate Walz went to coach Yale and in his first year pulled a number of unexpected upsets. Then he came up against Harvard in the EARC 2000-metre first heats at Princeton...
...coaching shifts at other colleges, Cleo O'Donnell, captain of the 1946 football team, goes to M.I.T. as varsity basketball coach, and James Rathschmidt, Princeton freshman crew coach since 1946, takes over at Yale for Allen (Skip) Walz, who resigned to enter private industry. Peter V. W. Gardner, 1949 Tiger varsity captain, will replace Rathschmidt...
James Rathschmidt, in charge of Princeton lightweight rowing before the war and head freshman coach since 1946, succeeds Allen (Skip) Walz, who resigned to enter private industry. His 1942 150-pound crew established a record for the Henley distance at Carnegie Lake which still stands. He has also enjoyed considerable success with his freshman crews...