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...fullback powerful Vince Moravec has gotten the nod over last year's regular, Bobby Cowen . . . Moravec played in 1945 for the New London Sub Base eleven, showed his stuff too well in the Stadium for the Crimson comfort as the visitor's triumphed 18-7. Moravec is six feet, three inches tall and weighs a cool 200 pounds in his stocking feet. Cowen, who was elected honorary captain of last year's gridmen at the end of the season, is just on his way back from that omni-present sick list...
...sheets to come this way so far is one from the Coast Guard Academy. It might be because the Coast Guard doesn't have very much to talk about from last season, having been unable to win a single game, but it might be that a press agent has gotten his fingers is the pie and has gone all over modest. They appointed a new head coach there this spring and four 200 pound tackles are listed on their roster. They might have something...
Norwalk's teachers took a 21% depression pay cut; in recent years they have gotten it back, but not much more. Last spring they organized an independent union, the Norwalk Teachers' Association, to raise minimums from $1,700 to $2,000, maximums from $3,200 to $4,500. The city's Board of Education called the demands "impossible" and tried to dicker with individual teachers. Mayor Edward J. Kelley* felt sure the teachers' "civic pride" would triumph over their pocketbooks...
Editor Ross, admitting to having gotten a little religion himself, announced that he was ready to do it again if something as good came along...
There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...