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...most part that's an accurate description of Ivy League crew. But, where I learned to row, at the West Side Rowing Club, in Buffalo, N.Y., the aristocratic aura was conspicuously absent. The clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Unruly Comments | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

Born in Rapid City, S. Dak., Hartmann was raised in Niagara Falls and California, where his family moved when he was nine in hopes that a warmer climate would end his repeated bouts with pneumonia. After he graduated from Stanford University in 1938, a globe-trotting student tour of Japan, China and Europe whetted his interest in journalism, and he joined the Los Angeles Times to cover the police and local courts. In 1954 he was made chief of the newspaper's first full-time Washington bureau and soon became one of then Vice President Nixon's favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Eyes and Ears | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...Times Reporter: We're booked on a flight to Niagara Falls. Jerry made plane and hotel reservations for all of us, and we don't want to disappoint...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Honeymooning With the Bathrobed Man | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...Niagara with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

Last week Allen's charges dropped three games, 98-58 to Niagara, 107-72 to Yale and 92-76 to Brown. Cornell's season has had a nightmare quality--a never-ending battle to hold eager opponents to under 100 points...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Cagers Face Hapless Cornell in IAB Tonight | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

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