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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Registered with the Jockey Club, in time for this week's Petworth handicap hurdles where her five-year-old Manicou is scheduled to run: Queen Elizabeth's racing colors, blue and buff with black cap and gold tassel. She was the first English queen to register since Queen Anne founded Royal Ascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mixture as Before | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Read where Buff Donelli says Jordan's team hits harder than Army. Pretty high praise, that. We were charging pretty hard the first half, but that second half, I don't know...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/3/1950 | See Source »

Still, it should be noted that this was B.U.'s third such engagement, within the last eight days and that their coach, Buff Donelli, has scrimmaged them hard in between. Thus it was understandable that the Terriers should appear somewhat tired, and it partly explains the fact that their backs fumbled the ball repeatedly...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Varsity Holds B.U. to Five-Point Edge In Controlled Football Scrimmage Here | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

...manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani and drowned bathing at Cap d'Antibes one midnight) will know pretty well all there is to know about the average Whig county family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Other Eden | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...BUFF-TINTED DUEBILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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