Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From its launching pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week, an Air Force Thor rose majestically into the air and, trailing fire, soared off smoothly on a long journey over the Atlantic. "Beautiful!" gasped a starry-eyed missile buff. But even more beautiful to the Air Force was the distance the missile traveled before plummeting into the sea: some 2.000 miles, 500 more than its nominal "intermediate range" capability, and 700 more than the first successful test Thor flew last month...
Fish-Scale Paint. A hot-rod buff himself. Bachelor Petersen aims his magazines at a dedicated army of backyard putterers, fellow hot-rodders and sports-car zealots from Hawaii to Great Britain. This 99.9% male audience relies on Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance reports on the new cars, and styling tips for faddists who keep their autos a la mode with rear-seat TV, stain-pearl paint made of crushed fish scales, "chopped tops" (i.e., lowering the cab) and taillight kits that make a 1952 Ford as finny as a '57 Plymouth...
Died. Montague H. Roberts, 74, mechanical engineer, pioneer automobile buff, who taught Franklin D. Roosevelt how to drive; in Newark, N.J. On Feb. 12, 1908, while thousands of waving spectators roared hoarsely, Roberts climbed into a Thomas Flyer, yanked down his goggles and dusted out of Times Square, pitted against five other massive autos in the first New York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July...
Columbia, sixth in the standings last year, has lost its one-man team, Claude Benham, by graduation, and seems destined to drop even lower this year. With Aldo (Buff) Donelli taking over the coaching job from Lou Little who held it for 27 years, the Lions will have very little to throw against Brown, which has been made a 13-point favorite...
Raising prize cocker spaniels, everyone knew, was Janet Gray's hobby. She filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent...