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...Little (no Ibs.) Willie Hartack, the year's leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Plus a Waterfall. Last week, when the story of his latest and flashiest fringe benefit broke, Beck bellowed like a bull caught in the barn door. "I had nothing to do with the purchase," he said. "When they wanted to give me a home, I wanted nothing less than what I was living in already. They said, 'Go ahead and buy it. We don't care what it costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Fringe on Top | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...best varsity swimmers in the country and what may prove to be a top freshman team, compete in the I.A.B. pool tonight with the Crimson's flashiest competition in Cambridge: Dartmouth. The varsity meet starts at 8:30 p.m.; the freshmen precede...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Will Meet Dartmouth Tonight in I.A.B. | 2/12/1955 | See Source »

...difference. In past years the dream cars were almost all flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster, a low-slung (42.8-in.-high) model with a reinforced glass-fiber body and an experimental 150-h.p., V-6 engine that G.M. engineers hope will enable them to cut down on engine space in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Motorized Future | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...biggest boat in the show was a 51-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 200-h.p. diesels, a complete electric galley, two showers, and staterooms for eight. It was sold for $88,000 to John Sparler of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a paper executive. The flashiest boat was Century Boat Co.'s chrome-trimmed, 55-m.p.h. Coronado speedboat, with wrap-around windshield and a 285-h.p. Cadillac V-8 engine. Ten minutes after the doors opened, Radu Irimescu, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S., who now works for Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., snapped it up for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Sailor's Delight | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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