Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young U.S. sportsman (Robert Stack) determines, almost as a lark, to learn how to handle the matador's fighting cape and sword. He persuades Mexico's leading bullfighter (Gilbert Roland) to teach him, falls in love with a high-born local girl (Joy Page) and then with the bulls. When Matador Roland dies in the ring while saving Stack's life, Stack, still an amateur, feels he must vindicate his honor and courage in the face of a hostile crowd and a raging bull...
...Smith girl's heart is through her stomach. Rahar's Inn, served by popular "Murph," is the handiest, while Wiggins Old Tavern is nice, in a plush fashion. For beer, pizza, and "atmosphere," the girls like Joe's, but the mountain-top Log Cabin or the Sportsman's Club provide a full meal or dancing...
Died. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 37, vice president of Pillsbury (flour) Mills, Inc., Alfred D. Lindley, 43, socialite sportsman, and Dexter L. Andrews, 38, all Minneapolis business leaders; in the crash of a light plane piloted by Pillsbury; near Paxton...
...matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers and machine-shop foremen, a maneuver he brought off with the hearty...
...ever caught him. He won the race by a full minute. His time: i hr. 22 min. for an average speed of 73 m.p.h. Second, for the third year in a row, was Connecticut Sportsman Briggs Cunningham in a Healey-Cadillac...