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Most people think of crew as a gentleman's sport for preppies and upwardly mobile types and for the 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...
...little run-in with a gang of punks from Buffalo's West Side. I was rowing in a single scull without paying very much attention to what was ahead, when, passing under the drawbridge leading onto Bird Island, a firecracker went off about a foot from my head. And then another one landed in the boat and went off under my leg, then a third and a fourth in the air above...
Died. Josef Krips, 72, Vienna-born conductor who rebuilt the musical life of his war-ravaged birthplace from 1945 to 1950, later led London's Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo's Philharmonic and San Francisco's resurgent symphony, and was renowned for mellow "singing" interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven; of lung cancer; in Geneva...
...Ferguson passed for three touchdowns and O.J. Simpson scored for the first time this season as the Buffalo Bills snapped New England's five-game winning streak with a 30-28 victory...
Reed himself admits that he has more in common with Calvin Coolidge than with Dionysus. Bacchanalian plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California...