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...Soft Pedal. After its amateurish debut, the supplement has graduated into a Sunday staple for both advertisers and readers. Many photographs bear the credit line Lord Snowdon (Princess Margaret's husband) and bylines are big: Ian Fleming, Lord Attlee, etc. Circulation stands at 1,200,000; the Daily Telegraph's Sunday edition started in 1962 with a phenomenal 1,400,000 only to level off around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Imitating the Imitator | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists. At M.I.T., some students park in a remote lot, heft bicycles off the roofs of their cars, pedal the remaining two miles to class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Can U Learn at Drive-In U? | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...galling limitations, free of his existence even, free as a bird and like a bird he longs to spread his wings and fly, fly! "Faster!" he shouts into the shouting wind. "Go faster!" The playboy, catching his mood, laughs with a mad demonic exultation and pushes the pedal to the floor. Ninety, a hundred. "Faster!" Laughing, the playboy swings out to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Judas Goat | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

When Restaurateur Toots Shor dove off a bar stool and fractured his right wrist a few weeks back, Jackie Gleason, 47, provided as much tease as sympathy. But The Blub is getting last licks. In a TV role, Gleason had to pedal downhill on a bike into a phony brick wall. The wall was supposed to fall away. Instead it fell on him, and lo and behold, a broken left wrist. With his injured appendage safely enslinged, Gleason offered a truce to Toots. "Now," he cracked, "we can go out and buy a pair of gloves together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...each year for garbage collection. They do not support a single superhighway, nightclub, parking meter, strip joint or subway. The suicide rate is Europe's lowest. Crimes of any kind are few and getting fewer-although the authorities admit that the nation's commonest transgression, larceny of pedal cycles, bears watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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