Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARION'S HUSBAND Buffalo...
...Buffalo...
...Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank to the other...
...Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could you spend $100 in Buffalo...