Word: buffalo
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Even opposing coaches have nothing but praise for the young quarterback. Lou Saban, head coach of the Buffalo Bills and former Patriots coach, says, "Jim Plunkett is certainly one of the fine young quarterbacks in professional football. He is an intelligent player with outstanding tools. He particularly impresses us with his ability to read defenses and to set up and deliver the ball before the pass rush can reach...
Most people think of crew as a gentleman's sport for preppies and upwardly mobile types and for the most part that's an accurate description of Ivy League crew. But, where I learned to row, at the West Side Rowing Club, in Buffalo, N.Y., the aristocratic aura was conspicuously absent. The clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant...
...West Side was a tough part of town--and that's where a lot of the old men in the club came from. Some of them, John Bennett, Doc Schaab and Jim Turner, were national and Olympic champions. John Bennett, a captain for the Buffalo police force, still holds the world record time for pair-oareds shells. John was a great one for pep-talks but I remember him best of all for his training recommendation: one bottle of Ballantine Ale every day. Some of these men lived half their lives down at the boat-house. One, who always chewed...
...little run-in with a gang of punks from Buffalo's West Side. I was rowing in a single scull without paying very much attention to what was ahead, when, passing under the drawbridge leading onto Bird Island, a firecracker went off about a foot from my head. And then another one landed in the boat and went off under my leg, then a third and a fourth in the air above...
Died. Josef Krips, 72, Vienna-born conductor who rebuilt the musical life of his war-ravaged birthplace from 1945 to 1950, later led London's Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo's Philharmonic and San Francisco's resurgent symphony, and was renowned for mellow "singing" interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven; of lung cancer; in Geneva...