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...Simply Gorgeous. The "trial"-a kind of rally for motorcycles*-is a punishing test of bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All Shook Up | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...those whose means are evil though their ends be good, and the world goes happily back to war. The paper-airplane crowd may find the ethics of the film a bit confusing, but they are bound to get a bang out of The Albatross, which is indeed a gorgeous gadget. Made entirely of impregnated paper, it checks out at 200 m.p.h. and looks like a cross between a blimp, a helicopter, a giant bat and a 19th century resort hotel. It even has a side porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Subteen Special | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 37, onetime second-magnitude tennis attraction less famed for her overhead than her under wear; and Frank ("Bing") Simpson, 35, Los Angeles lawyer-yachtsman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Hawaii last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...clock Ihe roulette action and flash the data to MAX, when suddenly-quick now, what next?-a beautiful chick pops into the room. She is Brigid Bazlen, a cute, twitchy little trick who does most of her acting with her eyebrows. Then in pops Paula Prentiss, a tall, gawkily gorgeous brunette who is, as one girl must be in every properly run comedy, helplessly nearsighted. She is an old flame of Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted to live in Chicago, but because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Follow That Mothball | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Columbia) is a capricious, unsuccessful but oddly likable western by Director John Ford, who starts off by making it seem clear that the film will be a horselaugh opera. Jimmie Stewart plays a grafting marshal who has a 10% piece of everything in a Panhandle dust hole, including a gorgeous sporting-house proprietress. But when a cavalry lieutenant (Richard Widmark) asks him mysteriously to ride 40 miles to the fort, Stewart scuttles away with him. The sporting lady wears a stiletto, the marshal explains, and favors marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flies & Ale | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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