Geneva1961Geneva Jan 2 Chess player Bobby Fischer, 17, plays Hungarian grandmaster Pal Benko to a draw in New York City, winning his fourth U. S. championship in a row. May The Rochester city council approves a revised contract with the Rochester Park organization to prepare a plan for the Crossroads area. May 16 Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opens at New York City's Imperial Theater. Jul 6 Jazz double bass player Scott LeFaro, 25, is killed in an automobile accident in Geneva. Sep 19 Batavia's Holland Land Office becomes a registered national historic landmark. Dec 13 New York State folk painter Grandma Moses dies. City The Clearview Expressway and the Throgg's Neck Bridge open. ** Gordon Bunshaft's Union Carbide Building (270 Park Avenue) and his One Chase Manhattan Plaza buildings are completed. ** Ellen Stewart founds the Cafe La Mama theater club. ** Pace College assistant dean Edward J. Mortola is named president, the insitution's third. ** The city's first primary election is held by the Democrats, with mayor Robert F. Wagner defeating Arthur Levitt. Wagner goes on to run on the Democrat-Liberal-Brotherhood ticket, defeating Republican-Covic Action-Non-Partisan candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz and Independent-Citizen's Party candidate Lawrernce E. Gerosa, winning a third term, and serving through 1965. State Edwin S. Underhill becomes editor of his family's newspaper, the Corning Leader. ** Canada's Alcan Aluminium Limited begins manufacturing products in Oswego. ** Joseph Addabbo is elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. ** The Hancock Shaker Village is opened as a museum. ** The Johnson Estate Winery is established, in Westfield. Batavia Louis Canale buys Palmer's Restaurant. Rochester Henry Gillette becomes the city's first Italian mayor. 1962 January Democrats wrest control of the Rochester city council away from the Republicans. April Batavia attorney Alice Day Gardner dies. Apr 20 President John F.Kennedy makes Alexander Hamilton's home on Manhattan, The Grange, a national memorial. June Ira M. Gates is appointed city manager of Batavia when C. Richard Foote resigns to become city manager of Wheaton, Illinois. Jun 25 The U. S. Supreme Court rules the use of a non-denominational, unofficial prayer in New York State public schools is unconstitutional. Jul 4 Francis Chichester completes a solo voyage across the North Atlantic from Plymouth, England to Long Island in the yacht Gypsy Moth III . Jul 16 Russell Baker's first column appears in the New York Times. Oct 3 About twenty New York Telephone workers are killed by a boiler explosion beneath the cafeteria at 5030 Broadway, in New York City. Oct 20 Irving Berlin's Mr. President opens on Broadway. Dec 6 20,000 members of New York City's International Typographic Union (ITU) walk off the job. Dec 19 David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia opens in New York City. City The Jewish Museum acquires the Albert A. List Building. ** Israeli-born violinist Pinchas Zuckerman enrolls in the Julliard School of Music. ** The Eagle Insurance Comapny is acquired by Continental Insurance Companies. ** A six-lane second, lower level is opened on the George Washington Bridge. It is dubbed Martha. ** Harry Winston jewelry executive Paul de Rosière leaves the firm and returns to Paris. ** Sculptor Paul Suttman begins exhibiting regularly at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery. ** Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. ** George Abbott's production ofA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opens. ** Columbia business professor Richard Eells is named executive vice-president of publisher Armand Erpf's Arkville-Erpf Fund. ** Lawyer William A. Shea brings National League baseball back to New York City, founding the Mets. Shea Stadium will be named for him. State The old Syracuse weighlock building is reopened as a canal museum. ** Edgar B. Bean becomes the first person to climb all 46 mountains of the Adirondacks in the wintertime. ** Pace College opens a campus in Pleasantville. ** Dr. Oskar Diethelm, chairman of Cornell's psychiatry department and chief of its medical center's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, retires. Buffalo Gordon Bunshaft's addition to the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art is completed. Rochester The Housing and Home Finance Agency declares the contract between the City of Rochester and the Rochester Park development agency to be illegal. Rochester Park brings legal action to enforce the contract. ** Midtown Plaza opens. Syracuse Alexander Jackson Davis' Charles B. Sedgwick house is demolished. 1963 Jan 17 The Port Authority Bus Terminal at New York City's George Washington Bridge opens. Mar 31 The membership of New York City's International Typographic Union (ITU) returns to work after a strike lasting nearly four months, winning a small wage increase. The New York Mirror closes, putting 1400 out of work. Aug 26 Frank Falco and Thomas Trantino murder two policemen in Lodi, New Jersey. Aug 28 Acting on a tip, police in New York City capture Frank Falco. He fights back and is killed. Trantino surrenders later in the day. Oct 28 Demolition of New York City's first Pennsylvania Station begins. Nov 2 The Newburgh-Beacon Hudson River Bridge opens. Nov 10 New York State Historian Dr. Albert B. Corey dies of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. City Carson, Lundin and Shaw remodel the ground floor of Wall Street's Manhattan Company Building. ** Construction begins on the Lincoln Center complex. ** Alexander Muss and Sons buys the remainder of Queens' Oakland Golf Club and builds Oakland Gardens, a development of one- and two-family houses. ** The steam-operated motor on the Spuyten Duyvil Swing Bridge is replaced by an electric motor. ** 46,500,000 vehicles use the newly-expanded George Washington Bridge. ** Murray Schisgal's The Typists and The Tiger are produced off Broadway. ** Talent agent David "Sonny" Werblin buys a share of football's New York Titans (renamed the Jets). ** Mount Sinai Hospital pioneers a sequential combination chemotherapy treatment for breast and ovarian cancer. State A trust fund is set up to protect the area around the Mohonk Mountain House, in the Catskills. ** Novelist William Kennedy begins researching the history of Albany. ** The Institute on Man and Science is founded on the Huyck estate at Rensselaerville. ** Contractor Carl Esperson builds an addition to the rear of Batavia's City Hall, to serve as a police station. Rochester Violent winds cause a Mohawk Airline flight to crash at the Monroe County Airport, killing 7 people. David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor