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...December Charles Nagel, in charge of the Brooklyn Museum, got the nod from St. Louis (his home town). Soon afterward Edgar Schenck, director of the Albright Gallery in Buffalo, was tapped by Brooklyn. Schenck frankly stated his reasons for shifting: "Better salary and wider scope of activity...
Five years ago, Crane Operator Henry Ciesla was stricken with amyotrophic lat eral sclerosis, an incurable chronic neurological disease. Paralyzed from the throat down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died...
...Central announced last week that its main line from Buffalo to Cleveland will be the first in the system to be cut from four tracks to two for maintenance economy. A new signal and traffic-control system (with several sidings along the way) will permit operation of trains in both directions on each of the two tracks. Cost of track removal and signal installation...
...celebrate its Golden Anniversary, Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery plans to amass some new treasures this year. First purchase: the Tamayo opposite...
...named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...