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...Went over Niagara Falls in a rubber tube...
...birthday this year, Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who loves carrots and publicity, was overcome by a recurring conviction: he was still a boy because he had quaffed quantities of buttermilk and vegetable juice all his life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...
Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
...were once SECmen: Vice President E. Carey Kennedy, former SEC analyst; Edward Roll, also an SEC analyst, now assistant to United's president; Harry G. Slater, who switched from chief counsel of SEC's public-utilities division to assistant general counsel of United's top subsidiary, Niagara Mohawk Power Co.; John J. Burns, counsel to SEC, who now has the same type of job at United...
...William Hill was Niagara's best-known riverman, a veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat...