This is one of my "I didn't know Tristram Coffin was still alive moments." I remember reading from his works back around 1962 when I took a folklore course at UCLA.

I just look at his obit online. The picture, therein, of a younger Coffin shows a scholar with movie star good looks, better even than his (perhaps) cousin Tristram (Tris) Coffin, who was a film and TV actor. In fact, every time I saw the folklorist's name, I conjured up the image of the actor.