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Just before Jackson Barnett died in 1934, supposedly aged 92, the Government had their 13-year marriage annulled on the grounds that the old redskin had been "kidnapped by an adventuress." Marshal Clark, an old buffalo hunter and army man who prided himself on never having used violence in executing a court order, at first seemed stymied by Mrs. Barnett's tactics. But early one morning when his customary audience was home in bed, he and twelve deputies cautiously moved up on the house. Mrs. Barnett, in the back yard feeding her pet cockatoo, ran in, bolted the door...
...tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase...
...size of a calf, were called antelope on sight by the Adam-pioneers. Before those pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, ''antelope" herds roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they have increased tenfold...
Harvard Club of Buffalo: James Holderbaum, of Buffalo...
Jhates S. Clarke '40 of Isa Grange IIL; Sidney Dorfman '83 of Filiaburgh; George W. Farwell '41 of Souanium; Sherman J. Maisel '38 of Buffalo; Paul Olum '40, of Binghampton, N. Y.: Henry D. Oyen '41 of New York: Isrsel H. Schbeinberg '40 of New York; Kenneth W. Sterling '40 of Providence Reburg C. Tucker '89 of Kaneas City and Bobert L. Walker '43 of Winnelks...