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...other line to meet it. Like any good gambler, Smith decided to cut his losses on American Overseas by selling it to Pan American for $10.7 million. In 1949 American broke through the dark clouds with net earnings of more than $7,000,000. Thus encouraged, C.R. took a squint into the future and decided to expand again. He placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which he got for some $700,000 less than later buyers, used them to begin the first roundtrip, nonstop flights across the continent. American has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jets Across the U.S. | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...What about Squint Sheridan? Did you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoffa's Funny Friend | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...absolute sense of spiritual well-being that Eustace had coveted all his life now enveloped him." Unfortunately, Novel No. 3, Eustace and Hilda, does not carry the pair farther into the empyrean but in the opposite direction. Hilda ends up jilted, a psychological wreck with "a slight squint, a drooping eyelid," while Eustace turns into a dead shrimp deprived of the loving tentacles of his anemone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stately Tome | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

This season the portly (229 lbs.), shaggy droll with the twinkling squint has hurdled the gulf from Omnibus to The $64,000 Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Busting Out All Over | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said he: "The autoconditioning I taught Don will be conducive to better pitching and improved reactions to the various circumstances that arise on the ball field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Talking Trouble | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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