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...none too potent in prewar days, when Ossie Cowles' Dartmouth teams held a death lock on the league, now have two tall, capable performers in brothers Bob and Jim Gake, and a well-rounded attack that features guard Hillary Chollet. Until bowing to Canisius, the Ithacans had subdued Rochester, Niagara, Yale, Colgate and Vermont...
...another part of the state Mead's opponent, Tom Dewey, hustled on through his last days before election, breezing through Elmira, Fort Niagara, Binghamton, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo. He was mellow, he was casual, he even had a touch of bonhomie; he was scathing of his opponents' "ignorance." He acted as though he had the election in the bag. Mrs. Dewey went with him, wearing an expression of loving-kindness ennobled by boredom. Dewey's immediate objective was reelection as governor. His ultimate goal: the White House...
Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders, made millions of meatless Americans drool last week...
News wires soon burned with the flash that a giant rockfall had plunged from the brink of the American Falls. Buffalo hastily reported that the shock had registered on the seismograph of Canisius College. An engineer of the Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and 30 feet deep, added that his view had been partly obscured by the mists. The reliable Associated Press released an aerial photo carefully marking the "Break of September 20, 1946." Said a Page One headline in the sober New York Times: AMERICAN FALLS NOW A HORSESHOE...
...dolomite rock ... as a normal part of a continuing process." But the voice of calm soon fell on reddened ears. After a closer look at their instruments, Canisius seismologists blurted: "Only a brontide [a low muffled sound caused by feeble earth tremors]." After a closer look at the Falls, Niagara Park Superintendent Francis Seyfried found them undamaged. Said he: "We have checked with the Army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back as far as 1906. ... As far as we are concerned there was no break in the American Falls...