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Americans' interest in stalking their forebears has in fact been increasing steadily over the past five years or so; it was greatly stimulated by the Bicentennial. According to expert estimates, amateur genealogy now ranks as the third favorite national hobby, after stamp and coin collecting. In fact, says Kenn Stryker-Rodda, associate editor of the venerable New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, family history "may now be outstripping philately and numismatics in popular interest." No small part of its allure is that ancestor hunting need not be expensive: the raw material and the rewards are in every family...
...trio spends most of American Buffalo planning to burglarize the apartment of a coin collector who has recently appeared in the shop. But the men are gradually undone by their own inertia, mistrust and ineptitude. The job never conies off. At the end they draw together in a fragile bond of shared futility, human castoffs alongside the inanimate ones...
...individual side of the coin, the Crimson's best, Mike Desaulniers, who is too good for the team competition, advanced to the quarter-final round before succumbing to John Reese in a five-game masterpiece...
Haight said the introduction of coin books bearing the defendants' finger prints should have been declared inadmissable as evidence...
Shortly after midnight on December 2, 1973, the burglars told the nightwatchman they had left a package in the museum. When the nightwatchman responded, he found himself under gunpoint. He was then taped and blindfolded, and led up to the third floor coin room where the thieves ransacked the premises for the coins...