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...spent a lot of money on me, and it's only natural that I should help him out." Such gems now sparkle all over the French press, nicely complemented by pictures of La Fonda in her man's-shirt peejays or high-riding skirt or skin-clinger slacks. It all suggested the supreme accolade, and she has been duly dubbed la B.B. Américaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors, and set up a perimeter defense around the grounds-while a red-haired cigar-chomper named Sherman T. Clinger, in the uniform of an Air National Guard major general, took over the principal's office as a command post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...grieves me to report that not only is the heretofore exuberant Mr. Clark imitable, but also that with a few exceptions he isn't worth imitating. For an old Clark afficionado those are hard words to utter, but there they are. The show, as it stands, is a clinger...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...BINGER-CLINGER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED LETTERS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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