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...succeeded was Carter Davidson, 41, president of Schenectady's Union College. Said he, at the University of Buffalo: "Americans need to be warned about . . . words and ideas which look much alike but have different effects. For example, Americans often confuse size with importance . . . speed with progress . . . money with wealth . . . authority with wisdom . . . religion with theology . . . excitement with pleasure...
...workmanlike Southpaw Spahn. In Boston, they have not even thought up a nickname that stuck (his Braves mates call him "The Nose"). Except for his high-heeled delivery (see cut) and his knack of nipping runners off first base,* there was not much out of the way about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full big-time season: control, relaxed confidence and a bag of assorted pitches (in 100 innings pitched...
Died. William A. Morgan, 75, Buffalo financier (no kin of the late J.P.), who virtually cornered the world copper market during World War I; after long illness; in Buffalo...
Kunkel faced them as calmly as William Cody facing the thundering buffalo of the western plains. He smiled, he shook hands, amid a sea of spring hats, he nodded. When Mrs. David Carr Sr., vice president of the Councils, showed him her knees which she had bruised slipping in a puddle, he made no audible reply. When one constituent kissed him and dozens squealed happily, he just braced himself. When sightseeing buses finally took the 800 off on a tour of the city, including the zoo, he walked away steadily and surely...
...artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...