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...project of G. David Schine, 34, onetime aide to the late Senator Joe McCarthy and now president of Schine Enterprises (hotels, movie theaters, bowling alleys, radio stations, and a fleet of sightseeing boats). Last week Schine opened his first Ski-Dek Center (nine deks) in Buffalo in a converted neighborhood movie theater...
...citizens of Buffalo, though not celebrated for love of art, have in their midst a museum envied throughout the U.S. Contemporary artists hold few places in higher esteem than the Albright Art Gallery. And there are few men for whom the dealers of Manhattan. Paris or London have more respect than its principal patron, Seymour H. Knox, 63. A small (5 ft. 5 in.), peppery man who is a crack polo and court tennis player as well as a director of six major companies (Marine Midland Trust Co., F. W. Woolworth), Knox is a born enthusiast-and his chief enthusiasm...
Next week, at a full-dress ceremony attended by Buffalo's mayor, by New York State's art-collecting Governor, and by artists, critics and architects from as far away as Japan, the gallery will celebrate its change of name to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. It will also open a $1,700,000 wing given mostly by the Knox Foundation and designed by Architects Slddmore, Owings & Merrill. Though the Knox wing is modern, it ingeniously avoids clashing with the original 1905 gallery, which has been described as the "finest example of pure Greek architecture...
...Thursday, Dec. 28, the clubs of Syracuse, Buffalo, Dayton, Cleveland, Akron, Portland, Me., and Baltimore will hold receptions. The clubs of Columbus and Milwaukee will host on Friday...
...Joanie Drost (her real name) won a prize on a Buffalo TV show singing Your Cheating Heart, largely because (she says) her numerous relatives bought piles of postcards and stuffed the ballot box by mail. Four years later her family emigrated to California. She recalls: "It was a miracle. We didn't have a flat until we were sitting in a gas station in California. We had $1.62 left...