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...Peugeot's $2,230 model 204, sportiest of all the French lines, a handsome, Italianate design, has a smaller engine than the Volkswagen but at its 86 m.p.h. top speed is 10 m.p.h. faster than the beetle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Safety Second | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Londoners are among the world's sportiest gamblers, willing to wager on everything from the greyhounds to whether or not the sun will shine (a hazardous bet, since the daily mean is only 4.16 hours of sunshine in the city). The Clermont Club, Crockford's and the Curzon House Club are the kings of the $3 billion-a-year fever, reigning over tables at which men and women do not gamble because they are on holiday, as they might at Deauville or Baden, but as part of their casual daily entertainment. It is not exceptional to see players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It On the Grass | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...American Underslung, so named because its frame was hung from beneath its axles, making the all-aluminum body not much higher than the huge (41½ in.) wheels. Designed by Harry C. Stutz, whose later Bearcat was the sportiest roadster of the '20s, the four-cylinder Underslung cost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Timers | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., the Duke of Windsor also took honors of a sort. He was by far the sportiest of a sartorially splendid foursome. His competition: British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Railroader Robert R. Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...only six of the 45 big race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cross Country Squire | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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