Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening of basketball, in addition to an Elgin watch and a G.E. clock-radio, or to travelling in chartered airplanes. Accordingly, he played six games last week with the collegians and led them to their first victory over the Globetrotters in this series with a 22-point performance in Buffalo last Tuesday night. This, too, was a record, briefly. Paul Arizin's 21 points, scored last year, were the previous high. Another collegian scored 24 in Kansas City the other night to break Smith's record and pace the All-Stars to their second victory...
Cleveland Barons 7, Buffalo Bisons...
Also entered are five Springfield swimmers, five from Delaware, three from Boston University and Buffalo, two from North Carolina State, and one each from Brooklyn, Connecticut, Duke, Lehigh, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tufts, Union, and Wesleyan...
Then in Chicago, another committee investigating team learned from a mobster that Harry Russell was a longtime partner of Tony Accardo himself. Later, checking the records of the Erie & Buffalo policy wheel, the Chicago team found a 1949 income-tax report made out by Accardo and Guzik as partners. They were getting $278,666 from the wheel, the report showed, but investigators were more interested in another item further down. The partners had claimed a loss of $7,252 on the S & G Syndicate in Florida. That frugal claim was the first solid proof that Russell had muscled...
...checkbook doesn't balance, whom to notify when he dies. ¶How to dress in the office ("Grecian sandals are not appropriate"). ¶How to begin a letter to the Lord Chief Justice of England ("My dear Lord Chief Justice"), and to the Commissioners of the City of Buffalo ("Sirs"). ¶ How to brush off a begging letter to the boss ("I wish I could, but I can't. I have come to the sad conclusion that I am carrying all the Good Causes I can possibly tote around"). ¶How to keep flowers from wilting...