Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot a series of pictures, mistaking the birds for snowy egrets, a common Florida species. Months later, Borden discovered he had the first pictures ever taken of a new U.S. immigrant: the Old World's buff-backed, yellow-billed cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis...
...attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives at the office at 6:30 a.m., likes to skip lunch and work until evening. He pilots his own helicopter, is a sports-car buff. Last year he built his own car, raced it in the Elkhart Lake, Wis. races (it broke down after 30 miles of the 100-mile race). ¶Edward H. Heinemann, 52, quit as vice-president in charge of Douglas Aircraft's European Division to become executive vice president at Summers Gyroscope...
Dalkowski's father, a vocational buffer in an electric-tool plant in New Britain, Conn, and an avocational baseball buff, trained Steve for the outfield. But the boy tried pitching in high school, quickly caught the strike-out bug. Says Dalkowski: "I didn't win, but when I got the ball over the plate, it was fun to watch them swing." Signed by the Baltimore Orioles after graduation in 1957, Steve joined a rookie farm club in Kingsport, Tenn. "I remember my record," he recalls, "because it was so even: 121 strike-outs and 129 walks...
...Boxing Buff. In Boston, after climbing into the Arena ring. Heavyweight Boxer John Twohads threw off his robe, found he had left his trunks in the dressing room...
Under Shawn, few deliberate changes have been made in The New Yorker (exception: a jazz buff himself, Shawn has added an excellent jazz column written by Whitney Balliett). Says one New Yorkerite: "Ross was the innovator. Shawn is the curator." Another puts it more harshly: "It's the difference between genius and talent...