Timepiece Fanciers Rebuilding Neglected Chronometers for Buffalo Historical Society
OLD timepieces, after many long years of tick-tockless storage in the Buffalo Historical Building, are getting the much-needed attention required to restore them to working order. Reporter Frank Buell details the efforts of local clock fanciers who are hard at work cleaning, re-assembling and re-building the neglected chronometers, in The Buffalo Evening News Week-End Magazine.
Also from the past is an essay on school rules written in 1789 at the Diamond Rock Octogonal School in Chester County, Pa. Through written more than a century ago, these old rules may be worthy of more serious consideration today.
SPRING MAY NOT be in the air, but it will be in the Homemakers Page of The News Week-End Edition. Saturday’s fashion feature highlights choice selections of the new spring creations of Paris designers. Exclusive illustrations splashed with bright spring colors will help you plan your new wardrobe for the coming season.
THE OLDEST museum television program in the country —,Your Museum of Science — originates from the WBEN-TV studios … and is enjoying its ninth year of popular programming. Success of the locally written, directed and produced educational program is reviewed in Saturday’s TV Topics. Also included in Western New York’s favorite radio TV guide is a discussion of financial problems of teen Don Juans, Lester Rand airs some of the common complaints of young people who have to foot the date bill.
IN WASHINGTON today, the missile controversy is the big issue … largely from a defense standpoint. But what about space itself? In This Week Magazine, Dr. Wernher Von Braun, America’s leading rocket expert, gives his authoritative answer to the question, “Why Should We Conquer Space?”.
BOB COUSY, the famous “old pro” of the Boston Celtics basketball team, reveals a great, unforgettable lesson in humility and faith he learned while a student and All-America basketball star at Holy Cross … in Lenten Guideposts in Saturday’s Week-End Edition.
THE QUESTION of a third term for Jawaharlal Nehru as India’s President of the Congress is as lively a topic in that country as it was for the President of the United States some years ago. Reports from Calcutta, in Saturday’s News Magazine, indicate a strong feeling that he is not wanted for a third term.
HAS THIS BEEN one of those hectic weeks for you … when you’ve been too busy to really keep abreast of the news? If so, catch up with all the latest happenings of the week … read This Week In Review, an informative synopsis of the important events of the week … in the Week-End Edition of The News — on sale everywhere for only ten cents.
