Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly everyone, a mania for collecting is a transitory phase of childhood. But for a few, the habit becomes a lifelong obsession. For Manhattan Art Dealer Sidney Janis, it began with hoarding marbles during his boyhood in Buffalo, and led to a perceptive collection of 20th century art. For Anne Kinsolving Brown, daughter of a Baltimore minister, the impetus came from a book on soldiers that she spied in a toy store at the age of nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave...
...that the Central's water-level route would be much more economical than the Pennsy tracks that ascend nearly 3,000 feet over the mountains of western Pennsylvania. Connecting links between Pennsy and New York Central tracks are being rushed at Toledo, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Terre Haute, Chicago, Buffalo and Detroit. Freight yards at Cleveland and Indianapolis will be modernized, and an entire new yard-to be named after Perlman-is being built at Albany. The basic idea is to take advantage of the savings that through-freight operations can provide. "The speed factor is vital," says Perlman...
...Everybody in the country has gone crazy about saving something," grins a happy member of Biddle's staff. Two Los Angeles burlesque houses want recognition as cultural monuments. Sheridan, Wyo., has saved Buffalo Bill's favorite saloon. Baltimore is trying to protect Babe Ruth's home. West Virginia would enshrine the father of Mother's Day. In Jackson, Tenn., Engineer Casey Jones's trackside bungalow is a museum. And Hartford, Conn., has a renovated stable proudly boasting: "George Washington's horse slept here...
...summer of '67 marked his move from dissent to resistance, as he spent the greater part of three months "hassling" with his local board in a vain attempt to be granted CO status or be reclassified 2-S. He made numerous trips to Buffalo and couldn't hold a regular summer...