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...days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny...
Whenever it seems that money is the root of all good in U.S. education and that only the Federal Government can provide it. the U.S. taxpayer can consider the case of Dillard A. Mallory, a gentle man of 56 who superintends the schools of rural Buffalo, Mo. (pop. 1,700). This month Buffalo will acquire three sorely needed school buildings costing $115,000. The source of the windfall is not the town, not the state, not Uncle Sam. It is Superintendent Mallory, who personally put up the money on a yearly salary of $12,000. "People...
...like something the Yankees would do. As the deadline approached for cutting teams down to twentyfive players, the management of the New York Mets coolly compared individual performance statistics and announced last Thursday that all-purpose Met Marv Throneberry had been dispatched to Buffalo in the bush league...
...current exhibitions are not intentionally related; yet they all seem like instruments-some reedy, some pure, some weak, some strong-of a single symphony. In Buffalo last week, two galleries paid homage to Local Boy Charles Burchfield on his 70th anniversary, while France was paying homage to Eugène Delacroix on the 100th anniversary of his death. At one Burchfield opening, 700 admirers crowded about their hero to wish him well; in Paris, the air was filled with talk of Delacroix-the huge show coming at the Louvre, the appetizer exhibitions now on view in Paris and Bordeaux...
Gathering in Buffalo, the delegates, representing about 2,000,000 Protestants in 40 denominations ranging from Assemblies of God through Evangelical Mennonites to Free Will Baptists, seemed to be more for than against. Although conservative Protestants generally prefer to see the wall between church and state kept high, the association this year issued a surprisingly moderate statement. It resolved that Christians are "citizens of two cities" who exist "in relation to the church and also in relation to the state. These two aspects may overlap but they do not coincide. Neither are they properly considered in conflict." The Evangelicals reaffirmed...