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...yards of Middle America. The two hot-rod drivers are enacting the Automobile Age's axiom of machismo: Speed thrills. Ten seconds later, the cars barrel across the finish line and the winner steps out, shaking her shoulder-length hair, allowing herself a tight, triumphant smile. Shirley Muldowney, dragstrip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Right Stuff | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Right Stuff | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Left to fill the position are three freshmen, Ann Diamond, Susan Newell and Patty Muldowney, and a junior, Dana Warren, who has never played soccer at Harvard prior to this season...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Women Booters to Open Season Today | 9/20/1980 | See Source »

...Manger. Her boss on the ship was a small, dark fellow named Dennis George Muldowney. In his rough-cut way, Dennis tried to make her job a little pleasanter. When at last she quit after refusing to clean out the passengers' lavatories, Dennis followed her to London, where he hung around her like a stray dog. In time he became a pest. Christine complained to the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Countess | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...killed her," said Dennis George Muldowney to the police when they came. "Let's get away from here and get it over quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Countess | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

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