I knew he was a curious man — I gave it no more meaning than that.
"Rove was a reader and a questioner -- a curious man, always eager to learn.
But Mr. Smith, a curious man, hunted until he found the article.
"He was a friendly man, a curious man," said Robert Pledge, a competitor and ultimately a friend of Mr. Chapnick's, who led both the Gamma and Contact agencies.
Mark Kurlansky produced a portrait of American businessman Clarence Birdseye (renowned for developing a process for freezing foods in small packages) in Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.
Neal Thompson's new biography, "A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley," is, unbelievably, boring.
Meanwhile, "A Curious Man," a book whose author had at his fingertips materials that few other historians have seen, reads as though it were written not by Ripley's biographer but by his publicist.
Suffice to say it involves a spaniel called Mouffette, a curious man called Reef and the final line, "Reader, she bit him".
In this week's issue of the magazine, Jill Lepore reviews Neal Thompson's biography "A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley".
