Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Louis Wirth, 54, University of Chicago sociologist, who regarded the modern big city as one of the sorriest products of civilization, once said: "We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under it"; of a heart attack; in Buffalo...
...musk ox is a hard animal to describe-it looks somewhat like a cross between a buffalo and an English sheep dog, has downward-curving horns and a morose expression. It is even harder to know. Though it once roamed as far south as Kentucky, it never learned to duck when hunters began shooting; now all but extinct, the musk ox lives on the fringe of the Arctic, where it munches lichen and other inferior fodder, and apparently spends a great deal of time watching it snow...
Minnesota's surprising primary-election results, for instance, did not put other local and national news events into total eclipse. Spring showers and a grand jury inquiry held at least part of the attention of people in Buffalo. A new book on Truman and the President's withdrawal from the California primary were among the leading topics in Los Angeles. Arizona's farmers spoke happily about the water backing up behind the state's dams...
Walking Proudly. Then the Franks got a break. There was a vacancy at St. Rita's Home, outside Buffalo, run by the Felician Sisters, and Petey was accepted. There, among other retarded children for whom there is no hope of normal development, Petey has stayed, and his parents visit him three or four times a year. Now five, he weighs a little over 30 pounds and has the mental powers of a one-year-old. He has learned to walk-"ungracefully and unsteadily," says his mother, "but with an unmistakably proud grin on his face...
Leaving Cambridge Thursday, March 27, the Glee Club will perform Friday night with the Buffalo Philharmonic under the direction of William Steinberg. Oscar Henry 2G will sing as soloist in the concert...