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...team will have to stop Columbia's phenomenal scorer Chet Forte (pronounced For-toe) if it is going to come anywhere near winning. "Forte is the second best college shooter I've ever seen," Wilson said yesterday. "The only better one I've ever seen was Larry Costello of Niagara." (Costello was Niagara's captain last season...
...Niagara of Nonfiction. When he returned to the U.S., Neuberger wrote his first article for a national magazine, "The New Germany," in the Nation, a chilling report on the early Nazi regime. The article was a sensation, and Neuberger decided to become a fulltime, free-lance writer. He set up shop in his mother's house, where, between reveries over phonograph records (his favorites : marches and Gaité Parisienne), he turned out a Niagara of nonfiction. By last week, after 20 years and some 750 articles and six books (including two highly successful children's books), Dick Neuberger...
...plasma and throws it away. At the same moment, possibly in a hospital across the street, another doctor wants to give plasma to a victim of burns or surgical shock. To save time, he usually gives whole blood, although all he wants is plasma. This way, a Niagara of blood has been wasted, because there has been no practical method of keeping red cells or whole blood more than about three weeks, and keeping plasma is even more difficult...
...that in 1936 really put jazz ballet on Broadway, On Your Toes was perhaps from the start pretty much all thumbs where it wasn't nifty footwork. Time has tended to merge the show and the ballet into one, but they are scarcely more alike than Buffalo and Niagara Falls...
...that the company was getting too big for one boss, will devote himself to policy matters while Faneuf handles operations. Before he joined Bell in 1943, Faneuf had worked at almost everything else but aviation. After graduating from Vermont's Norwich University (1926), Faneuf became commandant of the Niagara Falls De Veaux School. The next year he was on the copy desk at the Buffalo Courier-Express, a year later went back to teaching (French) at Buffalo's exclusive Nichols School for boys. He kept on job-jumping (political reporter at the now defunct Buffalo Times, secretary...