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Upon this scene, every midmorning, arrives the Buffalo Evening News's editor, Alfred Henry Kirchhofer-an austere, bony-cheeked man of 67 in rimless glasses and a dark blue suit. He looks much like Woodrow Wilson, a resemblance not fancied by Kirchhofer, who, like his paper, is a lifelong, rootstock Republican. Two feet six inches away from Kirchhofer's desk a visitor's chair is bolted to the floor; that is as close as Kirchhofer wants anyone to approach. Before long a flurry of blue memos pours from his desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities...
...bears the name and address of the sender, and will be piled on a hilltop in October to serve as a sweet-smelling funeral pyre for the dead King. When the royal tree is at last found, the news will be spread by couriers, bronze drums, temple gongs, buffalo-hide tom-toms and by telegraph...
...behind. But last week three major sports could report progress toward bigger and better things. ¶ The fledgling American Football League is now solidly stocked with college stars of the past season, expects to be in full flight by this fall in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football League, and if open war breaks out, it will be over charges and countercharges of invasion of territorial rights, and the awkward fact that some college players have...
...band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again at a United Steelworkers rally in Buffalo one day last week as silver-maned President David McDonald, a grin of victory on his face, slowly made his way toward the speaker's platform along an aisle jammed with jubilant steelworkers. Crowed McDonald from the platform: "Victory is yours...
...been ill and little heard from in the past few years, has recently recovered his health and turned out more than 30 watercolors in the last year. Twilight was begun 16 years ago, finished six months ago. It dramatically celebrates the slushy black winter climate of the Buffalo (N.Y.) region where Burchfield lives. "The sky is the leading actor," Burchfield explained. "I was trying to express the threat of winter coming. There is a single light in the farmhouse window, showing that somebody is preparing supper or that they've had supper...