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Earl Swift began writing for a living in his teens.

. “And Tommy took the ABC to court – and against all odds and expectations, he won.” Swift walked into The Body Shop having heard stories about Arney, of his being arrested 70 times, and that during a melee outside a sailors' bar, he’d choked a K-9 officer’s German shepherd unconscious and used the animal to pummel the policeman.

“And I came away baffled and charmed.

I don't get into corners I can't get out of! Among the sharpest memories I have is of my daughter singing in the back seat and me looking at her through the rear view mirror. But when Swift lifted the paper to fluorescent light, he could see then names. That face up there!—it's Cox. . ."); he's with Betty Grissom angry about not staying at Holiday Inn ("Now.

“It’s a big different thing to actually try to pull it off.”

He combed the Pilot’s classified section for used classic cars. . . The Press is a ravenous fool, always referred to as "the eternal Victorian Gent": when Walter Cronkite's voice breaks while reporting a possible astronaut death, "There was the Press the Genteel Gent, coming up with the appropriate emotion.

He undertook to find the complete history of a 1957 Chevrolet Townsman station wagon.

“It started out as a five-part series about the first 11 owners,” Swift says. Certainly there's much here that Wolfe is quite right about, much that people will be interested in hearing: the P-R whitewash of Grissom's foul-up, the Life magazine excesses, the inter-astronaut tensions.

He and his 26-year-old daughter, Saylor, are neighbors in the Blue Ridge mountains west of Charlottesville.