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...Hall, in which Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio appeared as one of the smartest political pros in the city's history. TIME's evaluation of De Sapio in that story (TIME, Aug. 22, 1955) got considerable documentation last week at the New York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly, in the five-day catfight he came out the conqueror of Governor Averell Harriman (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955). At the same...
Solemn Suffragette. The daughter of a Methodist minister, Dorothy Thompson grew up in upstate New York. Solemn, pudgy and 20, she flounced into Buffalo in 1914 after graduating from Syracuse University, toured the state as a low-paid, high-pressure suffragette for three years, then drifted in and out of a job as an advertising copywriter in Manhattan...
...that the delegates at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo have censured romantic love among teenagers, mixed marriages and birth control, I would like to ask the following question: How can these ecclesiastical bachelors consider themselves qualified to make decisions concerning family, marital and sexual problems? A Catholic priest attempting to be an authority on such problems is as ludicrous as a man trying to coach a football team when he has never seen a football game...
...Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, might look even beyond Buffalo and discover that we have followed God's command to be fruitful-we have multiplied, and the earth is filled; now all we need to do is use our heads...
...discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing, but he sat before it by the hour, reading aloud from plays, books, magazines. At 18 he left home and began to bounce around the country on his own, handling microphones in Indianapolis, Youngstown. Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Buffalo. He was married by then, for the second time to the same girl, and for the second time the marriage was breaking up. ("The first time we were divorced it was my fault. The second time it was her fault. When we felt that we were even, we quit...