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...feel blessed," grins Elsie Berger, 72, at being named the first Horsewoman of the Year by Horseman and Fair World magazine. She was certainly a long shot, for men had won the honor the previous 24 years. Starting with little more than a dream-a mare named Niagara Dream, to be exact-Berger turned a mom-and-pop stable into a racing powerhouse. Her ticket to the winner's circle was Niatross, a strapping bay regarded as the swiftest standard-bred in the history of the sport. In two years, he took top laurels on 37 of 39 trips...
JOHN O'HARA said that school spirit was horse shit. The day before he was to graduate as valedictorian of Niagara University Prep School, he visited every bar in town. The next day, the school took away his diploma...
When President Carter approved the relocation of some 700 families from the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, N.Y., last May, he acted on the assumption that the old chemical dump site was, in the words of a New York State report, a "public health time bomb." But just how severely have the people of Love Canal been imperiled? Reviewing the scientific findings to date, a panel of distinguished doctors has now issued a surprising verdict. In its view, no scientific evidence has been offered that the people of Love Canal have suffered "acute health effects" from exposure...
...good deal of his information comes from the author's letters and notebooks, which he quotes and paraphrases at great length in the text. In his account of Hawthorne's visit to Niagara Falls in 1832, he mentions, somewhat fastidiously, that the author felt an initial sense of disappointment upon viewing the falls; but he makes no attempt to assess Hawthorne's deeper reaction to Niagara, which represented, for many mid-nineteenth-century Americans, the symbol of the American sublime. Towards the end of the book, Mellow describes Hawthorne's increasingly reclusive nature on the basis of remarks from...
...thought that any new play would be a rehash of something I had done." Not Sarah. During the course of the show, the 66-year-old actress will age from 36 to 74, lose a leg, walk on the back of a whale and nearly drown in Niagara Falls. Says a slightly apprehensive Palmer: "I decided it would be cowardly to refuse this...