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At the Stork Club, in Paris, on the Riviera and in London's West End, everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Death of a Playboy | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

If not, it might be a good idea to get a copy of Captain Harry Allen Chippendale's Sails and Whales. Captain Chippendale, 72, is one of the last men left alive who during the last century pursued the largest of God's creatures over the bounding main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thar She Used to Blow | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

By all the rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Durable Man | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

In his first Don last February, some missed Pinza's dash and derring-do; instead, Schoeffler gave them suavity and elegance. They also missed the ringing excitement of Pinza's voice. Schoeffler's lower voice seemed slightly gruff; but he covered the range with sureness and in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Don from Dresden | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Before abandoning itself to derring-do, the film tries briefly to ring true by doggedly underplaying its account of how Stewart, a down & out newspaperman, persuades the government to free a convicted smuggler (Tracy) and send the two of them off on the rubber-smuggling project. The understatement is so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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