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...unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt on the flank of American history...
...Survival" (TIME, March 29, 1948), "The Story of an Experiment," in our 25th anniversary issue (TIME, March 8, 1948), and the David Riesman cover (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) André Laguerre, 41, born in England the son of a French father and an English mother, became a baseball buff as a boy in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. His devotion to horse racing came later, and so did a broad interest in sports generally. Last winter he covered the Olympic games at Cortina on special assignment for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...
...hair in a severe hairdo and is often seen in a dark suit with white blouse and necktie. But last November she appeared at a big party affair in a slashing evening dress, danced with party bigwigs until 2 a.m. Moscow scuttlebutt says Ekaterina is now a sports car buff, drives a speedy ZIS 112. She is also said to be married to the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia and to have two children, but in Russia, where no such private details are ever recorded in the public press, neither fact is readily verifiable...
With a sales eye out for the sports-car buff, Chrysler last week brought out four souped-up models of its regular lines...