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...deputy, John Wiggin, eventually made the point that, like it or not, jazz is a valuable exportable U.S. commodity. To sweeten its sometimes pungent flavor, the Voice decided to introduce the jazz with an hour of good pop music. To find an announcer the Voice held auditions, selected Buffalo-born Disk Jockey Conover, 35. His qualifications: a pleasantly resonant voice, the ability to speak slowly enough to be understood by foreigners with a little English, and an intimate knowledge of jazz; he owns a phenomenal 40,000 records, and draws from his collections for the Voice show. In most parts...
...Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well as an accomplished scientist, imprisoned the frontier in his reports and maps. His pictures of Indian life, the buffalo herds, the astonishing terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about to move forward on foot, he noted that "there were some fine...
Thomas had little opposition in the college event, as the only other entrant, Alan Spindler of Cornell, swamped. But in the men's race he beat both Spindler and Ed Cardwell of the West Side Boat Club of Buffalo...
South of Egypt the arc measurers ran into wild animal country. The lions did not bother them much, but they had some buffalo scares. In tall-grass country they set up prefabricated 100-ft. towers and did their surveying from platforms on their tops. When finished, they would move, towers and all, to an unsurveyed area. The last gap, Khartoum to Uganda, was completed...
Like Shane and Hondo, Jubal is just one of those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...