Word: buffalo
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...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
Senator Burton K. Wheeler achieved the age of 64 in Washington, and, striking a preprandial birthday pose for photographers, achieved something more remarkable : simply staring at a quarter of buffalo he managed to look as if he were giving his brightest, politest attention to a talkative constituent...
...rest of the West did not take this corpse-rustling quietly. North Platte, Neb., where Buffalo Bill had built a home with two stuffed buffalo flanking the front door, wanted him too. So did Cody...
Last week the old argument was up again. Denver was preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bill's birth with a parade of Indians and costumed plainsmen at the grave. Wyoming was also hustling to produce Buffalo Bill centennial celebrations-and still wanted Bill back. In Cody, Bill's grandson, William Garlow, cried: "If grandfather were alive he would say, 'Get my remains out from under this concrete even if you have to quarry...
...strictest secrecy in a ninth-floor room of the capital's guarded Justice Building. At night they were still held incommunicado, beyond reach of either relatives or lawyers, some at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks. The area was swept by floodlights and ringed with armed guards in buffalo coats...