Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Circle for Fury. This farfetched theory of Wolfe's paternity is one of several learned but lighthearted speculations passed on by the late William S. Baring-Gould, who was creative director of TIME'S circulation and corporate education departments as well as a detective-novel buff. In his earlier Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, Baring-Gould successfully employed the whimsical technique of treating a fictional character as a real person. The technique works as well in Nero Wolfe, largely because the character is such a rich...
...Real Buff. Bowie Kuhn, a distant relative of the knife-wielding frontier hero, Jim Bowie, may be just the man to cut through the encrustations of baseball. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 230 lbs., he looks more like a retired tackle than a Wall Street lawyer whose chief passion is gardening. The great-great-grandson of Maryland Governor Robert Bowie, he was raised in Washington, D.C. As a boy he worked inside the Scoreboard at Griffith Stadium, then the home of the Senators, for $1 a day. He played no sports in high school or at Princeton...
SWEET EROS and WITNESS. Nudity is the theatrical vogue at the moment, and in the first of these two one-acters. Playwright Terrence McNally has his psychopathic hero strip Sally Kirkland to the buff and keep her that way. The second and better play is a caustic, comic look at a U.S. where feelings of impotence and venomous frustration translate themselves into the assassination of Presidents...
Lady Bird has already introduced Pat Nixon to Hopkins' domestic counterpart, Chief Usher J. Bernard West, who presides over some 70 cooks, butlers, maids, elevator operators, electricians and carpenters. Under his overall supervision are five housemen who constantly wax and buff the floors; a full-time window cleaner who has 147 windows and eight skylights to cope with; and three flower arrangers who keep busy adorning the twelve guest rooms. After 27 years of White House ceremonies-including J.F.K.'s funeral and Lynda Bird's wedding-West says with equanimity: "We never have crises...
Hurwich, 46, an M.I.T.-trained mechanical engineer, puts in 55 to 60 hours a week as president of Dymo. Even in his spare time, he keeps pursuing many personal interests that he manages to turn to profit. A flying buff, he owns a small air-taxi service with a fleet of three STOL (for short takeoff and landing) airplanes in the San Francisco area...